Polls as accurate as they have ever been, study says
by Nicola Davis from on (#3HZRY)
Crisis? What crisis? New analysis shows polling accuracy has been stable over the decades - and might even have improved
It seemed to be a hat trick of polling catastrophes: Brexit, the 2016 US presidential election and the 2017 British general election. But researchers now say that despite popular perceptions, polls are as accurate as they have ever been.
They say a new analysis of political polls shows that errors have not increased over the decades since the 1940s - and might even have diminished.