• Iwasondigg@lemmy.one
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    10 months ago

    These pollsters think they’re Lucy with a football and we’re all Charlie Brown. They were wrong in 2016, 2018, 2020, 2022, but surely this time they’ll be able to predict the election.

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      10 months ago

      Pollsters generally try to be as accurate as possible but probability is probability and with rare events like this we can expect to see a lot of nonconforming results.

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        10 months ago

        Which is precisely why sensational headlines about a single poll is click bait I’m ignoring.