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Cyrano

(15,035 posts)
Mon Jun 8, 2020, 09:15 AM Jun 2020

Most political polls are bullshit. Then there's Quinnipiac University

Quinnipiac is a small University in the town of Hamden Connecticut. They have been doing polls for decades. And for anyone who hasn't noticed, they have been the most accurate political polls in America.

And it's not a one-time thing. They have been consistently right for decades.

I have no idea how they do it. But I do know that anytime I want to check a politically related poll, I check Quinnipiac and the results prove them closer to reality than any other poll out there.

It seems that their polls have no biases, preferences, agendas, motives, or anything else that can skew results.

Assuming you want to check in on reality once in a while, check out Quinnipiac polls on political topics. It seems to me that they consistantly measure the truth about the varying opinions in this country we call America.

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Most political polls are bullshit. Then there's Quinnipiac University (Original Post) Cyrano Jun 2020 OP
Its not bad, but not the best... brooklynite Jun 2020 #1
It sure appears, for the most part, to be more accurate than the Marquette University polls. Firestorm49 Jun 2020 #2
These ratings show otherwise liskddksil Jun 2020 #3
Can't argue with your statistics, but these numbers do not Cyrano Jun 2020 #4
+1, cause their accuracy is high along with low error rate. The reason it looks like they're uponit7771 Jun 2020 #6
Very very useful information uponit7771 Jun 2020 #5

brooklynite

(94,520 posts)
1. Its not bad, but not the best...
Mon Jun 8, 2020, 09:31 AM
Jun 2020

538 rates it as a "B+" (vs 6 "A+", 3 "A", 4 "A-&quot with a 0.2% Democratic bias and an 83% average success rate in predicting race winners.

Cyrano

(15,035 posts)
4. Can't argue with your statistics, but these numbers do not
Mon Jun 8, 2020, 09:44 AM
Jun 2020

indicate time/years. Over many years, and through personal experience, I've found the Quinnipiac polls to be accurate and reliable.

No one has a crystal ball. But Quinnipiac sure as hell has something that has made them a reliable source of "taking the country's pulse" for many years.

uponit7771

(90,335 posts)
6. +1, cause their accuracy is high along with low error rate. The reason it looks like they're
Mon Jun 8, 2020, 09:49 AM
Jun 2020

... not ranking as high as others is thier only methodology is live which seems to add to accuracy.

live nets then lower MOE and higher accuracy

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