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bombcar • today at 4:56 PM • 1 reply • view on HN

Polls are either accurate or not.

Professional polls are either accurate or have a good reason afterwards why they weren’t.


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asdff • today at 6:20 PM

Exactly, and therefore they must be considered as such. Models based on the finite data that were collected and handful of conveniently observable variables selected under study, nothing more nothing less. Whether you decide to use this as evidence for reality is at your own peril. Not just polls but truly any question involving statistics.