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Poll's swing and sway. There's always a margin of error; that's all fairly elementary statistics. What is fake about reporting their own poll?
by justinlaster 10y ago
Poll's swing and sway. There's always a margin of error; that's all fairly elementary statistics. What is fake about reporting their own poll?
- toomuchtodo 10y ago[removed]
- justinlaster 10y agoI am honestly not even sure what your point is anymore. Their data doesn't make their reports "truth." Them accurately reporting on a poll is what makes them truthful. "Poll's show Hillary's chance of winning at 80%" might be astoundingly wrong at the end of the day, that doesn't make their report about the poll a lie. Whether that poll reflects reality is a matter of statistical methodology, not journalistic integrity.
- sndean 10y agoI'm not sure if pollsters putting their finger on the scale == fake news, but there's a pretty well-documented record of polls "magically [0]" converging at the end of campaigns. Assuming pollsters are systemically altering their own polls at the very end of campaigns, I could argue that the news articles written about those altered polls are sorta fake news articles. [0] http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/election-update-clinton-gains-and-the-polls-magically-converge/ http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/election-update-clinton-...