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Re:Peter Thiel to Donate $1.25M in Support of Donald Trump by threeseed on Sunday October 16, 2016 @12:50AM (#12717017)
Exactly there is a big myth going around that polls never predicted Brexit when in fact they absolutely did. People just didn't want to believe them.

Polls are objective not subjective.

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Re:Peter Thiel to Donate $1.25M in Support of Donald Trump by kybernetikos on Sunday October 16, 2016 @02:41AM (#12717327)
Can you provide some links about the Brexit polls? I was following the betting markets and the prediction markets and they were dramatically wrong, even the day of the vote.
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Re:Peter Thiel to Donate $1.25M in Support of Donald Trump by rconti on Sunday October 16, 2016 @03:06AM (#12717408)
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/25/upshot/why-the-surprise-ov...

http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-eu-referendum-36648769

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Re:Peter Thiel to Donate $1.25M in Support of Donald Trump by notatoad on Sunday October 16, 2016 @02:44AM (#12717340)
>Polls are objective not subjective.

I get what you're trying to say, and most polling seems to be pretty objective, but you can absolutely do subjective polling. You just have to target the right demo and you can make any poll say anything you want.

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