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Don’t trust the polls? Neither did The New York Times in 1956 (spoiler: it didn’t work out great)
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Articles tagged polls (9)

“There was some feeling that the Times should stick to reporting trends and let the pollsters make the forecasts.”
The spread of ideas online, and people’s endorsement of them in polls, doesn’t give the whole picture.
Forecasts once again substantially underestimated the extent of support for Trump. But does that mean they failed?
Our analysis finds a 99 percent chance someone will still complain about it.
Can a widget’s worth of reader engagement lead to useful data — and maybe even money? “The whole idea is to give readers and communities a voice within journalism.”
The Engaging News Project want to know if that and other small cues and prompts can encourage people to seek points of view different from their own.