Flaws in Polling Data Exposed as U.S. Campaign Season Heats Up

… Are the polls correct? While that is hardly a new question, doubts are intensifying after a series of high-profile misfires around the world in the past year, notably in Greece, Israel and the UK. As politics and business lean increasingly on surveys and data, technological and social shifts are combining to challenge polls’ reliability in an entirely new way. Polling professionals have no solution; investors are wary. CONT.

Steven Yaccino, Robert Hutton & Margaret Talev, Bloomberg Politics

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