A dumb take. Outlier polls may be flawed or they may contain useful information that other pollsters are missing. But we won’t find out which if they get publicly shamed for releasing them.
I think the criticism is that they’re repeatedly publishing these and claiming they’re outliers without attempting to show how they got their results, from what I’m reading.
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A dumb take. Outlier polls may be flawed or they may contain useful information that other pollsters are missing. But we won’t find out which if they get publicly shamed for releasing them.
I think the criticism is that they’re repeatedly publishing these and claiming they’re outliers without attempting to show how they got their results, from what I’m reading.