When we need partners in the intricate political “poll dance,” we turn to FiveThirtyEight’s bantering statistics wizards, Clare Malone and Harry Enten. In an election season inundated by fluctuating, and occasionally contradictory, poll numbers, Enten and Malone keep their prediction models grounded with the discerning mantra, “Not all polls are created equally.” While trading acerbic stats-based witticisms, the FiveThirtyEight team walks us through the underlying biases that can skew poll results, like the leading ways questions can be ordered, the limited sample sizes surveyed, and even the motivations of the organization conducting (and paying for) the study in the first place. If polling represents an imperfect, though still useful, method for reading voter moods, Enten and Malone aren’t worried — the ultimate poll, they underscore, is always the election itself. Speaking of November, don’t forget to register to vote and make sure your voice is heard.

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