Failure and Success in Political Polling and Election Forecasting

The recent successes and failures of political polling invite several questions: Why did the polls get it wrong in some high-profile races? Conversely, how is it that polls can perform so well, even given all the evident challenges of conducting and interpreting them?

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spelling oai:doaj.org-article:629cf11b64674a6d837eddf277f144082021-11-26T11:19:50ZFailure and Success in Political Polling and Election Forecasting2330-443X10.1080/2330443X.2021.1971126https://doaj.org/article/629cf11b64674a6d837eddf277f144082021-01-01T00:00:00Zhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1080/2330443X.2021.1971126https://doaj.org/toc/2330-443XThe recent successes and failures of political polling invite several questions: Why did the polls get it wrong in some high-profile races? Conversely, how is it that polls can perform so well, even given all the evident challenges of conducting and interpreting them?Andrew GelmanTaylor & Francis Grouparticlepollingpolitical sciencepublic opinionPolitical institutions and public administration (General)JF20-2112Probabilities. Mathematical statisticsQA273-280ENStatistics and Public Policy, Vol 8, Iss 1, Pp 67-72 (2021)
institution DOAJ
collection DOAJ
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topic polling
political science
public opinion
Political institutions and public administration (General)
JF20-2112
Probabilities. Mathematical statistics
QA273-280
spellingShingle polling
political science
public opinion
Political institutions and public administration (General)
JF20-2112
Probabilities. Mathematical statistics
QA273-280
Andrew Gelman
Failure and Success in Political Polling and Election Forecasting
description The recent successes and failures of political polling invite several questions: Why did the polls get it wrong in some high-profile races? Conversely, how is it that polls can perform so well, even given all the evident challenges of conducting and interpreting them?
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author Andrew Gelman
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title Failure and Success in Political Polling and Election Forecasting
title_short Failure and Success in Political Polling and Election Forecasting
title_full Failure and Success in Political Polling and Election Forecasting
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title_full_unstemmed Failure and Success in Political Polling and Election Forecasting
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