In a recent Points essay published on the heels of the election, danah boyd highlighted the striking outcome that some had suspected but many didn’t want to believe: “We now know that the US election polls were wrong. Just like they were in Brexit.”
By Jennifer Wortman Vaughan and Hanna Wallach
We now know that the US election polls were wrong. Just like they were in Brexit. Over the last few months, I’ve told numerous reporters and people in the media industry that they should be wary of the polling data they’re seeing, but I was generally ignored and…
For months I have been concerned about how what I was seeing on the ground and in various networks was not at all aligned with what pundits were saying. I knew the polling infrastructure had broken, but whenever I told people about the problems with the sampling…
