Basically polling companies need to learn some humility. The best they can offer in this referendum is a trend between polls conducted with the same methodology. Any prediction is a guess. If it happens to be a correct guess, it will still be a guess.
Agreed.
What they have not done is learn lessons on methodology. Online and Phone polls, the latter using landlines, belong to the 1990's not 2016.
Online polls belong in the 1990s? If not online or by phone, how?
Basically polling companies need to learn some humility. The best they can offer in this referendum is a trend between polls conducted with the same methodology. Any prediction is a guess. If it happens to be a correct guess, it will still be a guess.
Agreed.
What they have not done is learn lessons on methodology. Online and Phone polls, the latter using landlines, belong to the 1990's not 2016.
Online polls belong in the 1990s? If not online or by phone, how?
Basically polling companies need to learn some humility. The best they can offer in this referendum is a trend between polls conducted with the same methodology. Any prediction is a guess. If it happens to be a correct guess, it will still be a guess.
Agreed.
What they have not done is learn lessons on methodology. Online and Phone polls, the latter using landlines, belong to the 1990's not 2016.
Online polls belong in the 1990s? If not online or by phone, how?
Astral projection, of course
Heh, reminds me of the Supreme Court in Futurama who reach their verdicts using high-speed telepathy.
Basically polling companies need to learn some humility. The best they can offer in this referendum is a trend between polls conducted with the same methodology. Any prediction is a guess. If it happens to be a correct guess, it will still be a guess.
Agreed.
What they have not done is learn lessons on methodology. Online and Phone polls, the latter using landlines, belong to the 1990's not 2016.
Online polls belong in the 1990s? If not online or by phone, how?
Astral projection, of course
Heh, reminds me of the Supreme Court in Futurama who reach their verdicts using high-speed telepathy.
Just been catching up on this thread, golly - very lively!
Basically polling companies need to learn some humility. The best they can offer in this referendum is a trend between polls conducted with the same methodology. Any prediction is a guess. If it happens to be a correct guess, it will still be a guess.
Agreed.
What they have not done is learn lessons on methodology. Online and Phone polls, the latter using landlines, belong to the 1990's not 2016.
Online polls belong in the 1990s? If not online or by phone, how?
Astral projection, of course
Heh, reminds me of the Supreme Court in Futurama who reach their verdicts using high-speed telepathy.
Just been catching up on this thread, golly - very lively!
So is it 'the higher educated who answer the phone' or 'the lonely saddos who've got nothing better to do on a Friday night'?
I think we may safely conclude - they haven't got a bloomin clue!
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I think we may safely conclude - they haven't got a bloomin clue!
One reviewer said
"Is the author male or female?
This reviewer would wager that S Tremayne is a woman."