The forces that drove this election’s media failure are likely to get worse

Re:The forces that drove this election’s media failure are l... by forkandwait on Friday November 11, 2016 @12:57AM (#12928337)

If I wanted to study a book for 10 hours on political polling and the math it takes to model the results, what book would you suggest?

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Re:The forces that drove this election’s media failure are l... by dlss on Friday November 11, 2016 @06:10AM (#12929655)

The two best resources I'm aware of in this area are:

* For designing psychology experiments: https://smile.amazon.com/Conducting-Research-Psychology-Meas...

* For Bayesian modeling and inference: https://smile.amazon.com/Bayesian-Analysis-Chapman-Statistic...

However, unless you are already very knowledgeable in these subjects, it will take longer than 10 hours to understand them. Very much worth the read though.

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Re:The forces that drove this election’s media failure are l... by forkandwait on Friday November 11, 2016 @04:11PM (#12934371)

Thanks, but that is a somewhat crazy answer. I have a BA in mat with a few upper division stat and prob classes, but desire to do a grad degree in stats (yuck). I just want to read a book about how pollsters practically execute their job.

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Re:The forces that drove this election’s media failure are l... by sn9 on Friday November 11, 2016 @06:45PM (#12935535)

You can usually find the methodology analysts like 538 use.

The better ones are usually pretty transparent about them.

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Re:The forces that drove this election’s media failure are l... by trendia on Friday November 11, 2016 @11:07AM (#12931873)

Depending on his / her statistics knowledge, Gelman could easily take 40 - 100+ hours to really understand.

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Re:The forces that drove this election’s media failure are l... by mrlatinos on Friday November 11, 2016 @03:25AM (#12928927)

I'm probably not the right person in the company to ask.

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