Telephone polls are messing with our politics, because theyre missing a huge -- and growing -- chunk of the population. Poll data is skewed toward older, wealthier voters in rural and suburban communities, reflecting a bias for conservative candidates. This bias evidences in polls as reported by the news media, but often vanishes on election day when votes are actually counted: witness the last Ontario election, in which poll data almost universally predicted a Conservative victory, while the actual election granted a majority win to the Liberal party. rabble.ca/news/2014/10/missed-call-influence-cell-phone-culture-on-accuracy-political-polls
Posted on: Mon, 27 Oct 2014 18:50:17 +0000
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