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- These eleven articles, originally published on iPolitics, will be reposted on this blog with section headings consistent with the earlier posts. In the meantime you can access the complete articles by clicking on the titles. Thanks for your patience.
- Pollsters use leading questions to manipulate the uninformed
- Searching for Accuracy in Election Predictions: More Regulation of Polls or More Competition?
- Can media be trusted to accurately report polls?
- Raising the Debt Ceiling: a Nation Divided, or Is It Just the Polls?
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Do Polls Work?
In an article posted on June 17, 2011 on the iPolitics website, Frank Graves, head of the polling firm EKOS , attempted to explain why his final poll failed so badly in predicting the Conservative majority in the 2011 Federal … Continue reading
Posted in Polling
Tagged 2011 Election polls, accuracy, Bloc Québecois, Canadian Federal Election, Conservative majority, Democratic bias, false narrative, Harry Reid, Jack Layton, Liberals, media influence, NDP wave, partisan polling, poll predictions, public opinion, Republican bias, Spiral of Silence
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How Polls Influenced the Outcome of the 2011 Canadian Federal Election
Canadians gave Stephen Harper’s Conservatives a majority government in possibly the strangest election in Canadian electoral history. Conservatives ended up with 167 seats, 24 more than before, while both Liberals and Bloc Québecois were demolished with their respective leaders, Michael … Continue reading
Posted in Polling
Tagged 2011 election, accuracy, Bloc Québecois, Canadian Federal Election, Conservative majority, Democratic bias, false narrative, Harry Reid, Jack Layton, Liberal, media impact, NDP wave, partisan polling, poll predictions, Polls, popular vote, public opinion, Republican bias, Spiral of Silence
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