(November 26, 2011 at 7:34 pm)padraic Wrote: I think the poll significantly understates Australia's secularism. A sample of only 1000 is far too small.Try 10,000 or more.
It's not so much the size of the sample (although that is important of course), it's the way the sample is selected. This article has some good info:
http://janda.org/c10/Lectures/topic05/GallupFAQ.htm