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Frankly I am surprised pollsters are still taken seriously as a profession. 2016 should have shown them to be nothing more than fortune tellers, skilled in the

• CloudNetworking 6y ago
  The problem is that people do not understand their findings.
• natalyarostova 6y ago
  Election forecasting isn’t useful for those who don’t understand enough about statistics and forecasting to have the correct context to know how to read and use the information. That’s not a criticism of you, it’s a problem in the field. I work in data science/forecasting, and explaining forecasts is so hard that it’s often useless for those who don’t understand how to read them.