Matthew Yglesias

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Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

It's not *no* incentive — if you could snap your fingers and make your polls better, you'd do it. But if it's genuinely expensive to improve, how much upside is there really? Especially in a world where the audience that cares most is likely to rely on aggregators. — PolitiTweet.org

Posted Oct. 21, 2022 Deleted after 22 days Hibernated

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Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

An interesting question to ponder is what kind of incentives do media organizations have to improve the accuracy of their polling in the face of social trends that have made it more expensive to do polling well. — PolitiTweet.org

46 percent of the sample has a four year degree. my kingdom for 1 (one) survey of Oklahoma that weights on educatio… https://t.co/4uejVlQAbP

Posted Oct. 21, 2022 Deleted after 22 days Hibernated

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Gallup had an unusually clear business model where accurate horse-race polling served as a loss-leader for their private services — so bad polls hurt them. Their reaction to the growing difficulty of producing accurate polls was to stop doing horse-race polls entirely. — PolitiTweet.org

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