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Re:The forces that drove this election’s media failure are l... by mikeash on Friday November 11, 2016 @08:27AM (#12930352)
Given that your poll was off by 8 points, was that not the correct decision?
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Re:The forces that drove this election’s media failure are l... by freehunter on Friday November 11, 2016 @11:12AM (#12931930)
The correct way to present polls is with a sampling of many different polls, like Real Clear Politics or 538. Yes, all the polls were off across the board, but individual polls have a higher likelihood of being wrong than a bunch of polls combined.
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Re:The forces that drove this election’s media failure are l... by mrlatinos on Friday November 11, 2016 @11:32AM (#12932119)
Most of our other polls were off as well, but in Clinton's favor, so do we not publish those either? At the time, there was no way to know what was correct, so shouldn't sharing the information be more important than anything else?
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Re:The forces that drove this election’s media failure are l... by mikeash on Friday November 11, 2016 @11:48AM (#12932253)
They were a lot closer, weren't they? 8 points off seems rather large.
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