Voters vote, non-voters don’t. Why is this so hard for pollsters?

Pollsters aren’t very sophisticated when deciding who is and isn’t going to vote on Election Day. You’d think they would have research-backed strategies for assessing who is likely to vote. They don’t. Pollsters usually just ask respondents if they plan to vote and take respondents at their word. …

But all is not lost. We uncovered two easy solutions to this forecasting error. CONT.

Todd Rogers & Adan Acevedo (Harvard Kennedy School), The Monkey Cage

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