Not the responses themselves but the methodologies of collecting responses don’t result in accurate representation of the population.
Using collection methods that skew demographics in one direction or another, like older people being more likely to pick up a phone call.
Failing to account for other potentially major variables. Like the 2016 and 2020 elections, pollsters failed to account for negative voter turnout, people who were motivated to vote against a specific candidate, which had major impacts on the elections.
I like that, it’s a pretty good breakdown of controlled variables. And it looks like they’re factoring in socioeconomic factors too, which is always a good thing.
After the last however long of bad polling, especially in the last 8 years, it’s refreshing to see some better methodology but it’s still going to take a while to get that general trust back.
Not the responses themselves but the methodologies of collecting responses don’t result in accurate representation of the population.
Using collection methods that skew demographics in one direction or another, like older people being more likely to pick up a phone call.
Failing to account for other potentially major variables. Like the 2016 and 2020 elections, pollsters failed to account for negative voter turnout, people who were motivated to vote against a specific candidate, which had major impacts on the elections.
In this poll responses were collected online and the sample was weighted to reflect census demographics
I like that, it’s a pretty good breakdown of controlled variables. And it looks like they’re factoring in socioeconomic factors too, which is always a good thing.
After the last however long of bad polling, especially in the last 8 years, it’s refreshing to see some better methodology but it’s still going to take a while to get that general trust back.