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> social acceptability of admitting that one voted for an unpopular candidate Not sure why you are getting downvotes. This phenomenon has been academically res
by acituan 6y ago
> social acceptability of admitting that one voted for an unpopular candidate
Not sure why you are getting downvotes. This phenomenon has been academically researched and documented under the name “preference falsification” with many past examples. If anyone is interested the 1995 book “Private Truths, Public Lies” is on this research.
- sukilot 6y agoPollsters know about preference falsification and try to model it.
- acituan 6y agoNo doubt they would try, but their prediction is bound to be at best as good as predicting the preference without asking the preference, which makes it profiling and not polling anymore. And as OP suggests, they failed at this spectacularly.