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"Not even an ounce of introspection. Still haven't heard any answers." Really now. No introspection? No answers? It might help to read the post-election covera
by timr 10y ago
"Not even an ounce of introspection. Still haven't heard any answers."
Really now. No introspection? No answers? It might help to read the post-election coverage, which was, you know...all introspection. Nonstop. For the last week. To help you out, here's a sample:
http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/the-polls-missed-trump-we-asked-pollsters-why/ http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/the-polls-missed-trump-w...
http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/what-a-difference-2-percentage-points-makes/ http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/what-a-difference-2-perc...
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/16/upshot/presidential-forecast-postmortem.html http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/16/upshot/presidential-foreca...
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/onpolitics/2016/11/09/for-the-record-trump-wins/93525286/ http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/onpolitics/2016/...
http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/features/2016/11/donald-trump-win-pollsters-wrong-161109225338646.html http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/features/2016/11/donald-tru...
http://www.nature.com/news/pollsters-struggle-to-explain-failures-of-us-presidential-forecasts-1.20968 http://www.nature.com/news/pollsters-struggle-to-explain-fai...
If you're willing to go so far as to download a podcast, you could try any of: NPR Politics, On the Media, FiveThirtyEight Politics and Left Right and Center, all of whom have done at least one in-depth story on the polling miss in the last week.
- paulddraper 10y agoI was talking about the mainstream TV news outlets that handled most(?) of the election night coverage. These often have their own polls their responsible for. It's great saner minds have looked into it; I meant to point out the dearth of follow-up by big-name news stations.