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From landslide to buried alive: Why 2017 election forecasts weren't wrong

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Re: The phrase "lies, damned lies, and statistics" ...

> the exit poll got it almost exactly correct which shows that polls can be done correctly.

No it doesn't. It just shows that their results were close to the actual vote, something that can happen purely by chance.

As the article argues, the issue is not polls being done incorrectly, it is them being misused, misinterpreted, or just plain not understood.

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