SBSQ #12: Will the polls lowball Trump again?

mwguy@infosec.pub to politics @lemmy.world – 2 points – SBSQ #12: Will the polls lowball Trump again?
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Title is hyperbole. Essentially the answer is maybe but most likely not. Has a discussion about potential poll error in the context of precision vs. accuracy. Notes that the model assumes accuracy but not precision.

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For what it's worth, the first sentence after the subscriber paywall is this,

My short answer is "no". Indeed, if I thought polling was predicatbly biased, I'd have built that into the model somehow.