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Harry Benson / Marriage Foundation reference: reliable?
@CommonKnowledgeCreator: favors the inclusion of this source in the article, but I think it's sketchy. The author has published it through the Marriage Foundation, an marriage counseling company that he is employed by.
CommonKnowledgeCreator says that this is OK because Savanta Comres is the source of the polling data in the article. Edit summary here.
However, Benson is the one who has made the interpretive analysis of the data, and I have no reason to believe his analysis was subject to any kind of peer review, being published by his own employer, a marriage counseling company. I also can't find evidence that Harry Benson has any expertise in data analysis.
First, according to his Marriage Foundation website profile, Benson is a doctoral student in social policy at the University of Bristol School for Policy Studies. If true, he probably has some education in statistics. More importantly, it is unclear to me why this article's references would or should require publication in a peer-reviewed academic journal since the subject is not an academic, medical, or scientific topic but is a consumer product. The Pew Research Center and Consumer Reports surveys cited in the article are not subject to peer review and release the results of the surveys they conduct on their own websites, just like most polling and survey organizations do. Per WP:SPS, the references in question are not blog or social media posts and self-published sources can be considered reliable when they are produced by subject-matter experts who have worked in the relevant field. Provided that surveys are done with representative sampling and conducted by professional survey organizations, it is unclear why such surveys would need to be peer reviewed for them to be included in related Wikipedia articles.
To argue that they shouldn't would be like saying that election polls polling data should not be included in Wikipedia articles about elections because the polls are not peer reviewed and published on the polling organization's website, or that a government census data should not be included in Wikipedia articles about a country's demographics because the government census agency's surveys are not peer reviewed and are published on the government census agency's website. Pew and CR are professional survey organizations and Savanta ComRes is a professional market research and consulting firm. The Pew and CR references cited as far as I can tell at least meet the WP:SPS standard since they are doing nothing other than surveys with representative sampling and are not experimental studies of some kind. While Benson may not have a PhD, many polls and analysis of them are conducted by people who only have a master's degree. Also, the full results of the poll are also available on Savanta's website if there are questions about the survey data itself. As far as I can tell, the data cited in Benson's analysis do not appear to deviate from the poll results. -- CommonKnowledgeCreator (talk) 13:48, 19 June 2024 (UTC)Reply
First, according to his Marriage Foundation website profile, Benson is a doctoral student in social policy at the University of Bristol School for Policy Studies. If true, he probably has some education in statistics.
Self-published expert sources may be considered reliable when produced by an established subject-matter expert, whose work in the relevant field has previously been published by reliable, independent publications.[g]
Possibly having done a class on statistics does not make one an 'expert' in this field. Using Goolge Scholar, I am unable to find evidence that Benson has ever published anything on this field through an independent, reliable source. Most of what he has written consists of self-help books published in Lion Hudson.
Lastly, this is not the same thing as election polling results, when released by a reputable publisher, such as Pew Research Center. What we are talking about here is a self-published analysis of data, by Harry Benson.
Wikipedia would not want someone like Dr. Phil's analysis of U.S. election data, published through his own website, which is closely approximate to what this is. Wikipedia always gives priority to high quality secondary sources, while discouraging SPS, including for seemingly mundane topics like video games and movies. Amaebi-uni (talk) 01:41, 20 June 2024 (UTC)Reply
Wikipedia would not want someone like Dr. Phil's analysis of U.S. election data, published through his own website which is closely approximate to what this is. I think this is an inaccurate analogy to Benson's analysis (since Benson supposedly is a doctoral student in a related field). However, considering that Benson has not published anything in a related field, then fine. It can be removed. -- CommonKnowledgeCreator (talk) 12:08, 20 June 2024 (UTC)Reply