Nate Cohn

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Nate Cohn @Nate_Cohn

We can see this with Marist, for example, who notes that they did just in *their* final polls in 2016 without education, or others on this website who have said some version of the same argument. In fact, there are folks whose polls were *worse* with education weighting! — PolitiTweet.org

Posted Aug. 10, 2020 Hibernated

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Nate Cohn @Nate_Cohn

As a result, I don't really think that this generally reasonable point by Nate here holds up exactly. The incentive structure for individual pollsters is different than for the polling aggregator. Education weighting threatens the aggregator far more. https://t.co/NVJkBCMrH7 — PolitiTweet.org

But there are some important constraints here. Polls mostly have strong incentives to be accurate. And they are mos… https://t.co/k0CWjSJJaB

Posted Aug. 10, 2020 Hibernated

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The catch, of course, is that although their polls would have been *worse*--and shown, say, Trump+5 in FL or whatever v. Clinton+1--the average would have been better. — PolitiTweet.org

Posted Aug. 10, 2020 Hibernated