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Friday, May 8, 2015
Sampling error’s more dangerous friend
As the UK election results roll in, one of the big shocks is the discrepancy between the pre-election polls and the results. All the pollsters agreed that it would be incredibly close, and they were all wrong. What gives? Some essential psych 101 concepts come in useful here. Polls rely on sampling – the basic […]
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