
#63: Why Polls Matter with G. Elliott Morris
Opinion Science
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The Changes Overtime of Public Opinion Polling
When polling was invented by gallop, there were basically there was only one really t interview people. Now for every personyou you want to call, call like at least a hundred e and that means pulls are expensive. Instead of having 70 to 80 % of people responded the pole, depending on how you count this, you have like one or two percent. It also means that the people who are talking to you are like, really engaged in politics, which introduces some biases in poles.
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