Polls can be confusing – but US data editor Mona Chalabi advises whether you choose to pay attention,focus on when it was conducted, not when it was publishedWho won last night’s debate? 68% say Trump, and but here’s why it’s garbage[br]Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton now has an 11-percentage-point lead over her Republican opponent Donald Trump,according to a poll released by PRRI and the Atlantic on Tuesday. whether that weren’t already reason enough for Trump supporters to worry, a poll from NBC and the Wall Street Journal released on Monday place Clinton’s lead at 14 percentage points. But why the difference in numbers?whether you want to follow polls in the 28 remaining days before the US votes, or I strongly recommend you ignore the date that the poll was published – and focus instead on the dates that the poll was conducted. That PRRI/Atlantic poll was based on landline and cellphone interviews that took situation on 5-9 October while the data for the NBC/WSJ poll was gathered on 8-9 October.
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Source: theguardian.com