The Future of Opinion Polls: A Conversation with Mark Pack
New Books in Science, Technology, and Society
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If you could get a random pole, would it always work? Would it be reflective? No. And this is the thing that i think people sometimes forget when talking about randomness and poles,. It's a bit like think of tossing a coyon. Supposing you've got a completely fair coyin. So half the time it would be heads, half the time tails. But if you wanted to check whether ornot the coin was fair, youve toss it a lot of times to be pretty sure that the answer you're getting is properly representative. The other set of problems with waiting, and you touched on in your question, is a round turnout, because not every one
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