Episode Synopsis "The US presidential election shows the limits of the ‘science’ of polling"

Election polls play a pivotal role in shaping political action and reporting elections to the public. Jeanne Sheehan Zaino argues their underlying assumptions about the nature of society and methodologies lead to oversimplified explanations for why people vote the way they do. Was 2024 was a good year for US election polls?  Nate Silver writes, “polling did not experience … Continued

Listen "The US presidential election shows the limits of the ‘science’ of polling"

More episodes of the podcast Impact of Social Sciences

• The perfect host – Why archiving research communication outputs is key to long term impact
• It’s time to extend the FAIR Principles of data sharing
• Are misinformation interventions different or fundamentally the same?
• The US presidential election shows the limits of the ‘science’ of polling
• What happens when you let ChatGPT assess impact case studies?
• Do Community Notes work?
• How we make history together – Exhibiting the local aftermath of Grenfell
• AI decision making doesn’t need to be explainable, but it should be responsive
• 2024 in review – The top posts of 2024
• 2024 In review – The art and science of research impact