Can We Ever Trust the Polls Again?

Can We Ever Trust the Polls Again?

Author: Time To Say Goodbye November 13, 2024 Duration: 1:18:09

Hello!

Today we brought back our polling experts Ben Recht, a professor of computer science at UC Berkeley and Leif Weatherby, a professor of German and the founding director of the Digital Theory Lab at NYU. We set out to really talk about one question: Can we trust these polls and were they right or wrong? Then we talked a lot about how campaigns think and how our data driven society leads to a bunch of very odd and almost random decisions but also very little reflection. Luddites rejoice, this one is for you.

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