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Related: About this forumAn excellent resource to show how exit polls mislead, or are wrong.
Exit Polls: Why They So Often Mislead
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An excellent resource to show how exit polls mislead, or are wrong. (Original Post)
Agnosticsherbet
Jun 2016
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Here is a link to an DU thread form April showing that they are not accurate.
Agnosticsherbet
Jun 2016
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Agnosticsherbet
(11,619 posts)1. Here is a link to an DU thread form April showing that they are not accurate.
Gothmog
(162,031 posts)2. The lawsuit being filed by some sanders supporters thinks that exit polls are golden
That lawsuit is so very very stupid. The Sanders supporters are filing really crap lawsuits and then get irked when the courts throw these cases out.
Agnosticsherbet
(11,619 posts)3. It is not difficult to prove that exit polls are not accurate.
Data flies in the face to what I call the urban legend of their infallibility. I heard that golden status quoted here and elsewhere for a long time. There is lot os evidence that they are not as accurate as counting the votes.
sarae
(3,284 posts)4. Nice, thanks for the link.