Opinion Polls; How Accurate are they Really?

Posted by: John W. Zimmer
Under: Opinion polls
19 Oct 2016

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4 Responses to “Opinion Polls; How Accurate are they Really?”

  1. Dr. J Says:
    October 20th, 2016 at 5:19 am

    I’ve never liked polls. I guess we will find out it nineteen days how accurate they have been. Do you think the newspapers need to have two front page headlines ready just in case :-)

  2. John W. Zimmer Says:
    October 20th, 2016 at 5:27 pm

    :) I’m just so glad someone will finally win. In CA we have 17 state wide propositions to try and figure out and always the smaller races and judges. The citizens have way too much work to do this time. :(

    That was funny reading about how Dewy beat Truman in the morning paper (they depended on polls) :)

  3. Dr. J Says:
    November 11th, 2016 at 6:47 am

    You were very prophetic with this, John, as history has now shown!
    I recently watched a news segment on Fox where they interviewed Stony Brook University Political Science Professor Helmut Norpoth. He had predicted a Trump win in February and he explained how he did it and why the pollsters were wrong.

  4. John W. Zimmer Says:
    December 17th, 2016 at 10:21 pm

    I had a feeling when the polls were close to the margin of error and he (Trumph) was drawing huge crowds… so polling is as much as an art as it is a science. :)