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2016 Presidential Election Polling: How wrong were they?

I used the data compiled from Real Clear Politics and came up with an average.

Hillary was predicted to win, on average, by 5.04 points.

Some major pollsters were off by huge amounts such as CNN which had Clinton winning by 24 points with an margin of error of 3.5 (looooooool). Actually, CNN had the biggest c*ckup. Bloomberg's was pretty damn bad, too.

From the major "core" pollster, the "big 11", they were off by an average of 3.3 points. How did they get it wrong so badly? And why did LA Times get it right with their new method?

NPR had a nice write-up.

http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tan...sed-their-mark/

"With few exceptions, the final round of public polling showed Clinton with a lead of 1 to 7 percentage points in the national popular vote."

And by my own math, I showed statistical variance of 2%-5% (or actually just a bit more than 3%).

Below you will see my data analysis. If there are those interested in getting access to this data to do your own analysis, I can upload this to google docs/sheets for public editing.

Discuss why the polls got it so wrong.

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Perhaps oversampling caused it?


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Perhaps oversampling caused it?


Pew had some great ideas. The Silent Trumpers seems to be one of them. People ashamed and brow beaten so much by their peers that they answered dishonestly. It was such a big deal that it caused the election to be lost by Hillary. So, obviously, this is a significant element.


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Hillary was predicted to win, on average, by 5.04 points.

See the thing is, how do I say this, Real Clear Politics disagrees with you:
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/e...> ein-5952.html


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RCP Average:
Clinton +3.3

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I think the embarrassed Trumper is part of it. There were some articles showing how automated polls had greater Trump support than those conducted by a person, which does support that a lot of people who voted for Trump weren't comfortable telling another person that.


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I think the embarrassed Trumper is part of it. There were some articles showing how automated polls had greater Trump support than those conducted by a person, which does support that a lot of people who voted for Trump weren't comfortable telling another person that.



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So we're going to ignore that double d is literally fudging up statistics here?

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So we're going to ignore that double d is literally fudging up statistics here?


KMC fudged your RCP link, should fix it/repost, showing the states

edit: I'll just do it: general election trump vs clinton vs johnson

RCP average there is Clinton +3.2


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KMC fudged your RCP link, should fix it/repost, showing the states

edit: I'll just do it: general election trump vs clinton vs johnson

RCP average there is Clinton +3.2

Thanks.

Given that Clinton got 2% more votes nationally, that would mean that those looking at the average of the polls rather than cherrypicking some would have only been 1.2% off.

Hence DD's assertion we can't trust the average of the polls to tell us how popular something is nationally is nonsense.

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Well hell real clear politics disagrees lol.

Game. Set. Match.


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Well hell real clear politics disagrees lol.

Game. Set. Match.


When DDM made his argument in the other thread he was using RCP data as support and you cheered him on. So why is RCP shit now?


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Lol that was a joke. I don't care what is used.

As long as it's not poll results that only come from a tiny percentage of the population and they aren't being used to make sweeping generalizations about what Americans believe...I'm cool.


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Sure. Sure.


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Sure. Sure.


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Originally posted by Rockydonovang
See the thing is, how do I say this, Real Clear Politics disagrees with you:
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/e...> ein-5952.html


They are wrong. I clearly did the math in the OP. And before you call it an arithmetic error, I used the built in math functions in Excel. So it's impossible for it be wrong due to a simple arithmetic error.


Clearly, Real Clear Politics has a math problem. wink


Can you replicate their math?


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Originally posted by BackFire
I think the embarrassed Trumper is part of it. There were some articles showing how automated polls had greater Trump support than those conducted by a person, which does support that a lot of people who voted for Trump weren't comfortable telling another person that.


Wow, this is the first I'm hearing/reading about the automatic polls.



It's pretty sad when people have to be so ashamed of their opinions.


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Originally posted by Rockydonovang
So we're going to ignore that double d is literally fudging up statistics here?


Do the math yourself. I've fudged nothing.


What are you afraid of? Is it that hard to average numbers? Is it that hard to come up with a variance (that's automated in excel, too)?


Why are you afraid of peer reviewing my work?

Want the spreadsheet?


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Hence DD's assertion we can't trust the average of the polls to tell us how popular something is nationally is nonsense.


What is there to trust? My work is open and visible. You're acting like it is magic what I'm doing. Sorry, this math is very easy to do. Again, I challenge you to duplicate my efforts and come up with a number other than 5.04%.

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When DDM made his argument in the other thread he was using RCP data as support and you cheered him on. So why is RCP shit now?


Right. That was the entire point of using RCP. They had the best aggregation of polls. Obviously, I do not care for their math because it is not visible. Their number does not match with the data which means they are doing something to fudge their numbers.


HOWEVER!!!! They cited their sources. So perhaps their math is wrong, sure. But that doesn't mean the data they've meticulously compiled is wrong which is where the value is in RCP, imao.


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Wow, this is the first I'm hearing/reading about the automatic polls.



It's pretty sad when people have to be so ashamed of their opinions.


Yeah these articles were from over a year ago and I don't remember where they came from, otherwise I'd link them for you so you could read them. There were quite a few, though. It was an interesting phenomenon that was kind of passed off as just statistical noise before the election, but then after the election gained a bit more traction because of the outcome.


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Originally posted by dadudemon
They are wrong.for it be wrong due to a simple arithmetic error.


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