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T-Shirt Contest Winners

The 44th Annual AAPOR Conference at the Don CeSar Beach Resort, St. Petersburg, Florida (May 18-21, 1989) launched the “AAPOR T-Shirt.” As an incentive for those who signed up for the Saturday morning 7:30 AM Walk/Run event, participants received the AAPOR T-Shirt with the iconic slogan “If we want your opinion, we’ll ask for it.” Elizabeth Martin (2004 AAPOR President) is credited with this original slogan that continued in 1990 and 1991.

An annual pre-conference contest has generated new slogans since then (see list of slogans and slogan winners below) and since 1990, the conference registration includes the option to purchase the annual T-shirt.

AAPOR is fortunate that since 1994 (T-Shirt, but no slogan), Tom Guterbock has saved his T-Shirts. Thanks to Mike Lawrence, who photographed and captioned the Guterbock collection, we have this historic collection.

1989
If we want your opinion, we'll ask for it.
Elizabeth Martin

1992
The truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth, +/- 4%
Tom W. Smith

1993
Pollsters do it for the asking.
Nikolai Popov

1995
Sample the Universe. Be a pollster.
Fred Solop

1996
AAPOR: 50 years and still counting.
Frank Rusciano

1997
To err is human, but if it’s less than 4% it's just sampling.
Tom W. Smith

1998
Without us, it's just your opinion.
John Marcum

1999
AAPOR – Telling Americans what they think since 1947.
Jim Wolf

2000
Your opinion counts if we count your opinion.
Tom W. Smith

2001
Polling: Now more accurate than the election itself!
Allan Barton

2002
We may not have all the answers, but we have all the questions.
Tom W. Smith

2003
The Ns justify the x̄s.
Joel D. Bloom

2004
Public Opinion Research: Fighting the War Against Error.
Kristen Olson

2005
If you don’t like the estimate, just weight.
Doug Lonnstrom

2006
Trust Us – We’re 95% confident.
Benjamin Healey

2007
I lost my validity at AAPOR.
Brooke Hoover

2008
Will weight tables for food.
Fred Solop

2009
Joe the Pollster
Timothy MacKinnon

2010
AAPOR: Freqs and Geeks
Angela Knittle

2011
Would you say you like this T-shirt...
1. Very much
2. Somewhat
3. Very little
4. Not at all?
Rich Clark

2012
AAPOR: We are the 99% (±1) .
Adam Enders

2013
We’ll call you maybe.
Megan Zander-Cotugno

2014
The weighting in the hardest part.
A. Rupa Datta

2015
Practice random acts of dialing.
Tancy Vandecar-Burdin

2016
Your opinion is important, even if it’s not significant.
Tanya Mulvey

2017
I’m just looking for the French quartile.
Alice Blackwell

2018
We have good surveys. The best surveys. No one is better at surveys than we are.
Jenny Marlar

2019
Don’t want to answer now? We’ll weight.
Nathan Palmer

2020
75 Years of Caring About What Other People Think.
Joan M. Hill

2021
6 Feet Is My New Confidence Interval
Megan Lipke

2022
Unmasking Public Opinion Since 1947
Chase Harrison

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