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Podcast: The New Liberal Podcast
Episode: The Past and Future of Polling ft. G Elliott Morris
Description: How wrong were the polls really in 2016 and 2020, and can we trust them in the current election cycle? Data journalist G Elliott Morris joins the show to discuss his new book 'Strength in Numbers' and discuss the state of the polling industry. We talk about the philosophical case for why polling is important, the history of polls getting things wrong, polling misses in recent elections, and how election modelers and pollsters are trying to correct for those misses. Further reading: A Troubled Birth, Susan Herbst - https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/T/b...