How to Read Polls Amidst a Crisis

… Call it cherry-picking or call it confirmation bias: Some people tend to pay more attention to polls that reflect well on their favored candidate, party, or cause. Others are guilty of seizing upon the most recent poll and assuming that God has spoken, without taking into account that one poll is not a trend and there are methodological differences between one poll and another. Reporters are particularly guilty of this sin. CONT.

Charlie Cook

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