the guardian view on statistical misperceptions:...
The public is wildly hit and miss at putting figures on social problems. Most of the error is not...
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the guardian view on polls: understanding failure...
The definitive inquiry into what went wrong in the UK’s 2015 general election makes sensible...
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the guardian view on opinion polls: flawed, but...
A deluge of data was over-hyped in Britains 2015 general election. But politics that proceeds...
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the guardian view on opinion polling: quality...
There was more data than ever ahead of this year’s UK general election . Much good it did. Six...
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our survey of muslims was as thorough as can be |...
Miqdaad Versi (What do Muslims contemplate? This skewed poll won’t tell us,12 April) undermines...
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wake up, britain. should the empire really be a...
The fact that so many people say yes reveals our collective amnesia approximately the manmade...
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general election opinion poll failure down to not...
The long-awaited postmortem on behalf of the British Polling Council says key groups including older...
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alarmingly for pollsters, eu referendum poll...
Current polls give mixed signals,with differences between online and phone surveys. Its going to be...
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election polling errors blamed on failure to speak...
Report by main psephologist suggests 2015 pollsters did not reach right people and so could not...
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win win tactic for befuddling pollsters | letters
“I don’t get people wanting to watch live theatre beamed into a cinema,” says Peter Bradshaw...
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pollsters must explain improvements before 2020...
Inquiry concludes UK polling companies should exhibit how they will avoid repeat of 2015 general...
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why opinion pollsters failed to predict overall...
Young,politically engaged Labour voters were over-represented in surveys while older Tories were...
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the other winner of the oldham byelection: polling
The difference between polls and the much-touted alternative methods of reading the runes is simple...
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perception gap: global poll reveals how we...
People tend to overestimate murder rate,number of foreign prisoners and teenage pregnancies, Ipsos...
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ukip defectors and the opinion polls that don t...
Alan Tiplady (Letters,17 November) suggested that no one had considered the possibility that the...
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if the polls were wrong for bernie, they can be...
Sanders beat Clinton in Michigan despite trailing by 21 points in the surveys. The up-and-down...
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now if only i had followed my own advice about...
An inquest into how they got the election so erroneous is out this week. But the clues to the true...
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new research suggests why general election polls...
Study conducted immediately after vote indicates that sampling in earlier polls may not fill been...
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labour s lost voters may never return again study...
Focus group interviews in five key constituencies reveal rejection of Ed Miliband and distrust over...
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trying to predict the election? forget about...
Tweets do not translate to votes due to highly skewed’ user base and penchant (a tendency,...
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flawed polls had major impact on election result,...
Former Liberal Democrat leader says polls predicting a hung parliament ‘massively increased the...
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today s political leaders are all in winston...
Cameron is sly,Corbyn naive, Sturgeon a zealot and Farage sleazy, and according to a poll of voters...
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yougov sales soar despite failure to predict tory...
Pollster says annual sales jumped 13% to £76.1m,buoyed by media coverage of its UK election and...
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polls as accurate as they have ever been, study...
Crisis? What crisis? modern analysis shows polling accuracy has been stable over the decades – and...
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