Fraudulent Pollster?
Nate Silver has a comprehensive analysis of the polling firm, Strategic Visions, LLC and posits that the pollster might be cooking their books. He uses statistical analysis to look if the distribution of the trailing digits of their polls are indeed random but ends up finding something fishy, even after comparing with a control group. Poll mein kuch kaala hai. Update: Mark Blumenthal at Pollster provides the roundup and is also interested in answers that Strategic Vision, LLC is still failing to provide.
“Fraudulent Pollster?” [Short URL: http://www.ipatrix.com/?p=2990] was published Saturday, September 26th, 2009 at 5:05 pm by Patrix, filed under Asides, Science, and tagged as fraud, polling, research, statistics, United States. Both comments and linkbacks are closed.
