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2 stories tagged election-polling, newest first.

Screenshot of kevinreuning.com: Viral Polls Are Not Representative Polls

Viral Polls Are Not Representative Polls (kevinreuning.com)

34 points by m-hodges 2 days ago | 34 comments

Blog post by political scientist Kevin Reuning analyzing Bluesky poll posts, finding polls more favorable to Democrats than average get reposted more, with R and Python code.

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Screenshot of cip.uw.edu: From confession to conspiracy: How the Wedgewood fake polls story spread

From confession to conspiracy: How the Wedgewood fake polls story spread (cip.uw.edu)

48 points by croes 5 days ago | 35 comments

A UW Center for an Informed Public research blog post analyzing how Wedgewood Polls' admission of fake polling spread on X and fed partisan rumors and rigged-election narratives.

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#election-polling on Hacker News

Viral Polls Are Not Representative Polls(kevinreuning.com)

From confession to conspiracy: How the Wedgewood fake polls story spread(cip.uw.edu)

Viral Polls Are Not Representative Polls (kevinreuning.com)

From confession to conspiracy: How the Wedgewood fake polls story spread (cip.uw.edu)