A new poll shows Donald Trump leading Joe Biden by just one percentage point ahead of November's election.
  • Reptorian@lemmy.zipEnglish
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    5 months ago

    Polls being wrong claim is more about how election results seem to be different than poll results. Special elections points to that.

    • lemming934@lemmy.sdf.org
      21·
      5 months ago

      Polls have a margin of error and election results have generally been within the 80% confidence interval 80% of the time.

      It is true that when there are less polls (like in special elections) it’s harder to get an understanding of the state of the race.