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After another polling failure (AU) Here's how to make opinion polls more representative and honest.

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Compare this with the shock result of the 2016 Trump election, and now the 2019 Australian election, when nearly all Australian opinion polls incorrectly predicted that Bill Shorten's Labor Party would defeat Scott Morrison's Coalition on a two-party preferred basis.
 

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#MePolsterToo movement ... when polls are created with the sole purpose to create news, then polls will never be reliable. Polls are political weapons and as such no poll is reliable and no pollster is "trustworthy."

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