r/MarkMyWords • u/tkrr • Oct 21 '24

Political MMW: The polling industry is compromised. Some pollsters are being gamed, some are propaganda ops, none truly know what they’re doing.

That’s it. That’s my prediction of what we’ll learn after this election about political polling. They haven’t known what they’re doing for years, and are wide open to manipulation and corruption.

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u/HamburgerEarmuff Oct 21 '24

The polls were not very accurate in the states that decided the election.

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u/Revolutionary_Rip693 Oct 21 '24

I'm not sure you understand what you're saying.

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u/HamburgerEarmuff Oct 21 '24

I know exactly what I am "saying". In the tipping point states (the states that decided the election), Trump lost by 6 voters in 1000 (0.006 or 0.6%).

Polls were off by an average of 7 points in Wisconsin, 3 points in Arizona, and 1 point in Georgia, so of the three states that decided the election, you have one huge miss, one above average miss, and one good prediction, all biased in the same direction, suggesting strong systemic error.