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Month: November 2024

On Polls and Margins of Error

Nicholas Watkins Brown
On Polls and Margins of Error

Last week I posted a retrospective on swing state polls. However, I excluded Nevada and Arizona as both states still had a significant number of votes to count. Since then, both states have gotten to 99%, so I figured I could include them. I also decided I could probably go […]

Polling Retrospective

Nicholas Watkins Brown
Polling Retrospective

We Americans have a lot of November traditions. Thanksgiving. Black Friday. Cyber Monday. Playing Christmas music waaaaay too early. Voting. And a new one over the past few decades, complaining about polls. In case you have been living under a rock, we in the United States had an election last […]