Opinion Science

#63: Why Polls Matter with G. Elliott Morris

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May 23, 2022
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1
Introduction
00:00 • 2min
2
How Do You Predict the Weather?
01:31 • 2min
3
Is There a 70 % Chance of Rain?
03:59 • 4min
4
Are Election Forecasts the Good Ones?
07:50 • 3min
5
Are You an Upholsterer?
10:39 • 2min
6
Is the Term Polsters a Compliment?
12:23 • 2min
7
How Did You Become a Data Leason?
14:29 • 3min
8
Was It a Data Junkie?
17:35 • 2min
9
How Did You Get Into Quantitative Analysis?
19:42 • 3min
10
Politics With Statisticians - Is That What Happened?
22:16 • 2min
11
Why Do We Need Poles?
24:45 • 3min
12
What Are People Really Thinking?
27:20 • 3min
13
I Love the Image of Abe Lincoln in the White House
30:44 • 2min
14
The Changes Overtime of Public Opinion Polling
32:18 • 4min
15
How to Measure the Response Rate of Upholsters
36:30 • 4min
16
The Margin of Error From Upholsterer
40:21 • 3min
17
How Can We Improve Public Conversation the Poles?
43:42 • 2min
18
Election Forecasters Could Be More Careful About Polling Errors
45:13 • 5min
19
The Language of Uncertainty in the Model
50:13 • 4min
20
Predicting Elections
54:08 • 4min
21
Predicting the 20 20 Election
58:07 • 4min
22
Using Machine Learning to Optimize Aggressiveness
01:02:17 • 4min
23
What's the Book About?
01:06:33 • 3min