Pollsters Say They Follow Ethical Standards, But They Aren’t So Sure About Their Peers

For our second poll of leading U.S. political pollsters, we asked about ethics. The pollsters who answered, even those who asked for anonymity, said they follow basic ethical principles such as not copying others’ work or letting campaigns dictate results. But many held doubts about their peers’ ethics, and about the media’s ability to parse honest, good polls from dishonest, lousy ones. CONT.

Carl Bialik, FiveThirtyEight

Leave a Reply

This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Learn how your comment data is processed.