Election polls are 95% confident but only 60% accurate, study finds
How confident should you be in election polls? Not nearly as confident as the pollsters claim, according to a new Berkeley Haas study.
How confident should you be in election polls? Not nearly as confident as the pollsters claim, according to a new Berkeley Haas study.
Political science
Oct 27, 2020
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Puerto Ricans living in Florida, the largest swing state in the country, are mostly supportive of undocumented immigrants, a political attitude that might have broader social and political implications than political candidates ...
Social Sciences
Apr 7, 2022
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Throughout most of 2016, a significant percentage of the American public believed that the winner of the November 2016 presidential election would be a woman—Hillary Clinton.
Social Sciences
Jan 8, 2020
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"Scottish independence: polls show it's too close to call."
Computer Sciences
Sep 30, 2014
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A strong earthquake shook Lima and regions of central coastal Peru late Tuesday, causing fear among the population and some damage, but no deaths or serious injuries.
Environment
Jun 23, 2021
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As network anchors and pundits appeared stunned at Donald Trump's Electoral College victory Tuesday night, it was obvious much political polling data had missed the mark.
Economics & Business
Nov 11, 2016
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Fox News and MSNBC anchor opposing ends of the political spectrum and, as a consequence, are the focus of an international study led by two Florida Atlantic University researchers on the social psychology of three United ...
Social Sciences
Aug 17, 2021
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A team of researchers at the University of Washington's Center for an Informed Public has found social media platform managers could dramatically reduce the spread of misinformation on their sites by combining just a few ...
Can a 90-minute-long debate change the course of a presidential election? How about a nine-word tweet?
Political science
Oct 8, 2020
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French citizens will for the first time this year be able to vote in a parliamentary election over the Internet, an experiment that could be extended to other elections if successful.
Internet
Feb 10, 2012
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