Thursday, September 26, 2024

"Life can only be understood backward, but it must be lived forward"

Historian Rick Perlstein's take down of the polling industry is really great. I definitely needed to read it.

The crazy truth is, polls have always had a mixed result at predicting election outcomes and their success rate now is not really much better than the polls from 100 years ago that everyone now accepts were flawed. So why does never new poll result grab my attention? I don't know if I can stop.