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Sunday, November 11, 2012

Which Polls Were Most Accurate?

For many of us in the last weeks of the election campaign, the mantra was "Keep calm and trust Nate Silver."  He was proprietor of "538," the NY Times's poll-reading outfit, and the messages he drew from dozens of polls ended up being amazingly accurate.  This Times article is about which polls were most accurate and why.

http://fivethirtyeight.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/11/10/which-polls-fared-best-and-worst-in-the-2012-presidential-race/?nl=todaysheadlines&emc=edit_th_20121111

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