The Polls in the 2016 election were ACCURATE

[christiefan915]

If I were a polling company I would put up fake polls the whole time to help push my narrative then just put one real one at the end. After all you are only judged on the last poll.

Funny how all polls tighten towards election day.

Why am I not surprised you'd support something so dishonest?

[Cancel 2018.2]

Why 2016 election polls missed their mark

The results of Tuesday’s presidential election came as a surprise to nearly everyone who had been following the national and state election polling, which consistently projected Hillary Clinton as defeating Donald Trump. Relying largely on opinion polls, election forecasters put Clinton’s chance of winning at anywhere from 70% to as high as 99%, and pegged her as the heavy favorite to win a number of states such as Pennsylvania and Wisconsin that in the end were taken by Trump.

http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank...ed-their-mark/

4 Possible Reasons The Polls Got It So Wrong This Year

http://www.npr.org/2016/11/14/502014...rong-this-year

Great thread Jarod!!!

Proof Jarod and Thingy are morons.

[Русский агент]

Why am I not surprised you'd support something so dishonest?

should i show u podestas dnc playbook email for slanting the polls?

https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/26551

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Proof Jarod and Thingy are morons.

its like they r thinking hillary actually won

bizarre

[BRUTALITOPS]

Despite popular opinion, the polling numbers, almost all came in within the Margin of Error.

There was some dramatic shifting in the week before the vote, but if you take the election day numbers they almost all were within the Margin of Error...

I was one of the first people after the election to say that the polls were pretty close, it was peoples interpretation of the polls that was off. That is still true of JPP largely.

However some state polls very much undervalued trump. I think Ohio and obviously michigan and PA were off a bit.

Additionally it's one thing to be inside of the margin of error but when you are on the wrong side of the margin of error in like every single state that might speak to a broader problem with some of the methodology. States like florida and NC are not the same as Michigan, so the correlation shouldn't be as strong.

The main takeaway though is you are a huge fucking retard that should never even consider talking about polling or stats.

[BRUTALITOPS]

The problem is most people are very bad at inherently understanding probabilities. A 30% chance coming to fruition does not mean a poll was "wrong" - we can expect 30% to happen very frequently. In the weeks leading up the election I said very distinctly that trumps chances of winning were better than the cubs chances of winning when they were down 3-1, and yet I talked to multiple retards on here saying it was literally impossible for trump to win. These idiots literally denied the existence of statistically probability, they couldn't fathom it. Much of this history of JPP delusions has been retconned and forgotten though. Jarod will continue to make the same mistake next time though and learn nothing. If trump is 20% to win in 2020 jarod will say trump can't win. He will literally make the exact same mistake next time. book it.

[BRUTALITOPS]

You see, a 70% chance means there is a 30% chance on the other side, and if the 30% chance happens the poll was not necessarily wrong.

See how that works?

lol fucking idiot, you are literally a year behind on this. Maybe you should have read my posts last year and you would have learned something.

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The OP is correct. It's a myth that the polls were "way off" this year - especially the national polls.

Hillary won the popular vote by 2%, which was right in line w/ most polls. Historically, pretty close to the norm.

I remember specifically telling you that if the national polls were under 3% than a whole host of possabilities of trump winning were on the table and you were having none of it. I love it now that liberal polling chumps like you all of a sudden think you are experts, given how stupid you were last year on the matter. November 5th you still said it was impossible for trump to win. The internet does not forget.

[BRUTALITOPS]

National polling will always be better than state polling, as state polling is closer to the ground and harder for polling companies to have accurate regular polling of all swing states. There will be more variance with state polls because of this. National polling only tells us so much about electoral politics given we don't have a national election.

[Buckly J. Ewer]

So the polls that said Donald Trump had a zero percent chance of victory were correct.

Time to take your pills kid

Polls don't say things like that...analysts do.
The polls were within their stated margins of error...
Your argument is with punditry not polls.

[Cancel 2020.1]

I remember specifically telling you that if the national polls were under 3% than a whole host of possabilities of trump winning were on the table and you were having none of it. I love it now that liberal polling chumps like you all of a sudden think you are experts, given how stupid you were last year on the matter. November 5th you still said it was impossible for trump to win. The internet does not forget.

Are you really attempting to talk down to me after the past 6 months+ of swallowing everything Trump is feeding you whole and being one of his most ardent apologists?

How marvelous.

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1:07 anybody who says the polls were within the margin of error is kidding themselves

[BRUTALITOPS]

Are you really attempting to talk down to me after the past 6 months+ of swallowing everything Trump is feeding you whole and being one of his most ardent apologists?

How marvelous.

I accept your concession

[tinfoil]

People on the Right keep saying they were not accurate as justification for saying they are not currently accurate.

They were not accurate no matter how much you want to believe. The bias was documented. Fivethirtyeight has a list of the bias scores if you google it.

[PostmodernProphet]

he thinx if he keeps saying the polls were right and clix his heels 3 times the wicked witch will be magicked in 2 the white house

Hilliary was the wicked witch underneath Trump's house.......Jarod's her sister and has flying monkies in the media......