Why You Shouldn't Trust Polls
Who Are The 2016 Presidential Candidates? http://testu.be/1W9Qk5w Newsy News http://testu.be/1PLWm7t Subscribe! http://bitly.com/1iLOHml Polling were once a trusted tool to gauge public...
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Polling titan Gallup has decided to withdraw from the US presidential primaries and may even sit out the general election. Perhaps it’s not too surprising, given that they predicted Mitt Romney would beat Barack Obama in 2012 and instead he lost by about a 4 point margin. Over the past few decades, polling has become increasingly inaccurate. With the upcoming 2016 election it’s important to know, why do polls get it wrong so often? Well, there are a number of reasons why polling accuracy has declined. For one, cell phones are on the rise, while fewer and fewer people use landlines. Why would this be a problem? Cell phones can’t be autodialed according to the 1991 Telephone Consumer Protection Act. In order to call someone’s cell phone, a live person needs...
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Polling titan Gallup has decided to withdraw from the US presidential primaries and may even sit out the general election. Perhaps it’s not too surprising, given that they predicted Mitt Romney would beat Barack Obama in 2012 and instead he lost by about a 4 point margin. Over the past few decades, polling has become increasingly inaccurate. With the upcoming 2016 election it’s important to know, why do polls get it wrong so often? Well, there are a number of reasons why polling accuracy has declined. For one, cell phones are on the rise, while fewer and fewer people use landlines. Why would this be a problem? Cell phones can’t be autodialed according to the 1991 Telephone Consumer Protection Act. In order to call someone’s cell phone, a live person needs...
