CNN’s wildly unrepresentative polling

Rodolfo Cortes
Nov 7 · 1 min read

Every undergraduate who enrolls in a basic social science research methods course learns that, if the goal is to understand peoples’ attitudes, it is important to recruit a diverse sample that approximates the population.

Yet, CNN—despite its unlimited resources—inexplicably (and repeatedly) fails to recruit a large sample that represents the people of the United States.

Thankfully, CNN does publish its data (usually around a year after the survey’s results are touted by its anchors), and the latest available data, from the December 2018…

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