Polling by right-leaning firms has exploded this cycle. Maybe they want to be accurate—or maybe they’re trying to create a sense of momentum for Donald Trump.
  • scarabine@lemmynsfw.comEnglish
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    6 hours ago

    Consider this: given two options,

    • 10 polls with no bias, weighted by only past performance
    • 20 polls, half biased, weighted by an arbitrary secondary metric to remove bias (which only trends the data towards an average)

    Which do you suppose would be more reliable?