[EM] Updated article

[rob brown]

Well Paul we certainly are in agreement here in that voters should not need
to know poll information.  (or get any advantage whatsoever by knowing it,
in my opinion)

However, if I am looking for an accurate predictor of the outcomes of big
elections, I am extremely impressed with sites like tradesports.com and
other futures markets.  But that's another topic....

-rob

On 12/24/05, Paul Kislanko <kislanko at airmail.net> wrote:
>
> Again, I'm just a po' li'l ol' voter here. But there was a resonation with
> the "need to have accurate polling data".
>
> Neither I nor any other voter in my precinct gives a hoot or assigns any
> credibility to the "have to have something to publish so we'll publish the
> results of a badly-conducted poll" garbage that we're currently getting.
>
> Any analysis that depends upon "accurate polling data" is probably doomed.
> I was the happy recipient of a random poll call not long ago, and even the
> nice-sounding part-time intern who was asking the questions agreed with me
> that the questions were pretty stupid. There was no way they could get my
> opinion from my answers to those questions.
>
> Let's pretend for the purposes of Election Methods that the only "polls"
> in the debate are those that said "Dewey beats Truman!"
>
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