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The Polls Aren’t Wrong. The People Reading Them Are. | Freedom Friday
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Text the show! 📊 There’s no such thing as a wrong poll. Yeah, I know. Stay with me. A poll is a measurement. It records what a group of people said at a particular moment. A prediction is something else entirely. So when an election doesn't turn out the way television forecasters expected, why do we blame the measuring instrument instead of the people who turned that measurement into a prediction? This Freedom Friday, Chad goes back through the polling “disasters” Americans think they rememb...