Survey: Polls are less reliable

[chuck_curtis]

Are the polls correct? While that is hardly a new question, doubts are intensifying after a series of high-profile misfires around the world in the past year, notably in Greece, Israel and the UK. As politics and business lean increasingly on surveys and data, technological and social shifts are combining to challenge polls’ reliability in an entirely new way. Polling professionals have no solution; investors are wary.

Of course, that won't keep the media from quoting them, but know what your getting.

http://www.bloomberg.com/politics/articles/2015-09-29/flaws-in-polling-data-exposed-as-u-s-campaign-season-heats-up

[WWV10MHZ]

Is the article saying that polls are showing that polls are less reliable? ? ? ? ?

[chuck_curtis]

Nothing beats actual results to compare poll predictions to.

[WWV10MHZ]

For sure!!

[Jw2]

they must have seen all those Republicon polls predicting the outcome of the 2012 election.

no wonder Willard was shocked to lose so badly.


we contract and conduct polls all the time.

sample size - database - methodoligy - tennor of the questions ... all affect the outcome of the poll.

the ones that are most reliable are the ones done consistantly over time.