Polls may be making voters worse at predicting elections

Blaming the polls for getting the 2016 election so wrong is understandable, but there was arguably a bigger problem: the false confidence that the polls inspired. Indeed, the flood of polls may be having a perverse consequence: making voters worse at predicting the election, not better. And the media landscape isn’t helping. CONT.

Benjamin Toff (Oxford), The Monkey Cage

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