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Type: BOOK - Published: 2020-08-25 - Publisher: University of California Press

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Interpreting poll data as a prediction of election outcomes is a practice as old as the field, rooted in a fundamental misunderstanding of what poll data means.
Polling at a Crossroads
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Polling at a Crossroads presents an intuitive paradigm that allows us to understand and confront the challenges facing modern polling.