Why I’m skeptical of some puzzling polls

  • protist@mander.xyz
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    8 months ago

    Ok, but didn’t the polls have Clinton winning leading up to the 2016 election?

    • snooggums@midwest.social
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      8 months ago

      The popularity polls, yes. She also won the popular vote by a significant margin.

      Trump won some battleground states by slim margins, mostly because Clinton did a terrible job of deciding where to campaign. Also a lot of sketchy voter suppression tactics made those battleground state wins questionable.

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      8 months ago

      They did, but she was doing her own analysis of the polls and had some concerns that made her think the race was going to be much closer than the polls suggested.

      You shouldn’t just blindly take the polls at face value, you also need to be thinking critically about them, theres a lot of ways to misrepresent data, a lot of issues that can crop up due to how the polls are conducted, etc. and when she took all of that into account, the polls suggested to her that it was going to be a much closer race than most of the media coverage was saying.

      She was still a little surprised that Trump actually won, but it wasn’t totally out of left field.