Liars, damned liars, and people who respond to opinion polls
“If this exit poll is right, I will publicly eat my hat on your programme,” said Paddy Ashdown on the BBC’s election night coverage. People on all sides struggled to believe the exit polls and came up with all sorts of explanations, until it turned out it was the opinion polls that got it wrong. There are several possibilities: people lied in all the polls before the exit poll or loads of people changed their minds once they had the pencils in their hands or people voted tactically. Maybe exit polls are just better, but they’re definitely different.
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