Pollsters Debate If Modern Surveys Can Be Trusted

September 26, 2015

It was inspired by a NYT op-ed column by Rutgers political scientist Cliff Zukin wrote in June that detailed the “near crisis” now facing election polls, which has made “high-quality research much more expensive.” That trend, Zukin argued, has “opened the door for less scientifically based, less well-tested techniques.”

Huffpost Politics, September 25

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