The Future of Opinion Polls: A Conversation with Mark Pack
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What's the Difference Between the Average and the Average?
Average is helpful in terms of giving you a sense of the overall picture, but if there are real differences between the poles, averaging just makes that disappear into one number. In the u k it's quite common for the polster who's top of the pack at one election to be in the middle of the pack, or even a laggard at a subsequent election. And this depends on how the polesters treat people who vote torian 19, but currently say they're unsure who theyare going to vote for. Different methodologies treat those people in different ways and produce different headline answers. The average smashes all of those together. There is this consistent difference and there is ause
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