• GreyWizard@lemmy.ml
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    21 days ago

    36 years old. Never voted before in my life… But that changed this year! I registered and voted early for Harris!

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      21 days ago

      Wtf are the polls and why do they exist…I always hear about winning/losing before any election even happens.

      Is it just made up garbage?

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          There were a lot of garage firms this cycle. Flooding the averages with a particular bias.

          My gut feeling is also that the larger, more credible polling outfits are herding a bit and are afraid of under sampling the same voters they under sampled the last 2 elections. Though this bit remains to be seen, as I said it’s more a feeling than anything.

          Edit: also to add on to my herding note. I find it odd that every projection system out there says it’s close but also makes a point to hedge further and say that a landslide either way is plausible. It just adds to my feeling of herding and general ass covering.

          Edit 2: just saw the Seltzer Iowa Poll. This post is about 5 hours old at time of edit. Maybe gut was onto something

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            Yeah to be honest if you’re in the business of saying that it’s a) a really close race and b) could be a landslide to either side, why even bother making any comment or prediction at all lol what a waste of space

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              Then Ann Seltzer entered the chat. My goodness. I don’t know if she just had an outlier or not. But you cannot accuse her of herding with that one

      • RudeOnTuesdays@lemmy.world
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        Polls are when organizations teach out to a percentage of the population (phone, Internet) to ask them their voting intentions.

        Exit polls are the same thing, but are done after people have voted.

        Sample size/distribution is supposed to be done in a way that reflects the voting intentions of the populace as a whole (doesn’t always work out that way).

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          I’m really hoping we’re seeing a surge of people who haven’t participated in polls but are voting for Harris. I know I’ve had pollsters reach out to me and I’ve brushed them off because of time, energy, whatever. But you can be sure as hell I got my ass out to vote

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            Bluntly, I can’t tell what’s a legit poll and/or a scam, so I’ve been ignoring all of them.

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    Do not let your guard down. Vote. And do what you can to assure those around you vote as well. Especially that well meaning 20 something in your life with a high danger to procrastinate.

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    The article spent a lot of time speculating about the reasons why one candidate or the other had a lead, without providing any data. Then it gets to this guy’s model, and it’s based off predictit??

    I think Harris pulls this off, but as problematic as some polls can be, betting markets are even less reliable. This article essentially means nothing.

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    “It’s been going back and forth around the 270 line,” he told Fortune. “Right now, it’s a tossup according to the PredictIt numbers. The big question in my mind is, how much Republican bias is there in the prediction markets?”

    According to this data person, Trump blew a huge lead to make it evens. Please vote

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    21 days ago

    According to betting data. I remain skeptical — it’ll be a tight one.

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      Betting data was way more in favor of trump than normal polling, but it’s all bet driven so it’s generally going to lean to whichever side gambles more.