How To Read Polls In 2024 | 538 Politics Podcast

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  • @kopias
    @kopias หลายเดือนก่อน +19

    I feel like Nathaniel doesn’t know what an 8 year old is

    • @mitchellmartin4580
      @mitchellmartin4580 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Thankfully, I don't think many 8 year olds are listening in on this.

    • @zachjohnson9335
      @zachjohnson9335 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      Ah I remember using the words "demographics" as an 8 yr old

    • @kestrelpounces
      @kestrelpounces หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      I was thinking of inflicting this on my smart 15-year old, but I'm pretty sure that explanation will make his eyes glaze over 🤣 *I* found it good info tho! 🩵

  • @ACMFORALL
    @ACMFORALL หลายเดือนก่อน

    Always enjoy the analysis.

  • @falconnm
    @falconnm หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    14:50 description of margin of error. So far off, the so-called margin of error is the statistical chance of error based on the sample size. It does not include structural errors, such as whether the contact method or time of day favors a particular side. It also doesn't include shifts such as how likely a particular side is to turn out. Basically it's only the minimum amount of error, and any issues with the sample will increase it tremendously

  • @jackkazinsky290
    @jackkazinsky290 หลายเดือนก่อน +36

    would be better with video

    • @AllenTaylor-q9e
      @AllenTaylor-q9e หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Does anybody know how GAY Galen is? I really wanna know!!!

    • @CB38096
      @CB38096 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      @@AllenTaylor-q9e ask your dad

    • @AllenTaylor-q9e
      @AllenTaylor-q9e หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@CB38096 why would my dad know how gay Galen is?

    • @PhiltheMoko
      @PhiltheMoko หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@AllenTaylor-q9e like on a scale of 1 to 10?

    • @AllenTaylor-q9e
      @AllenTaylor-q9e หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@PhiltheMoko yes I really wanna know how gay he is

  • @SpencerOnYT
    @SpencerOnYT หลายเดือนก่อน

    Good work over the past 4 years team

  • @ph2417
    @ph2417 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    What happened to the video? The show is so much better when we can see the expressions of each speaker.

  • @CB38096
    @CB38096 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    30:00 aw Nathaniel, I wish I could be this optimistic. I think the internet enables false realities so pretty sure this polarization is never going away. Not a coincidence we got this polarized with the rise of smartphones and social media

    • @miguelvelez7221
      @miguelvelez7221 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Lynchings, voter disenfranchisement, violent strike breaking, mass protests and even political violence in American society ALL existed before smart phones. Do you really think any of this is new? That's a false comforting fiction. There was no golden "before time".
      They were killing Civil Rights activists and fire bombing churches in the 1960's. That wasn't polarization?
      I don't disagree that the reach of misinformation and biased, bigoted views is far wider today thanks to the Internet, but I'm sorry, there was never some "end of history" that we grew up in where American politics didn't have deep rancor festering throughout.

  • @ZappBranniglenn
    @ZappBranniglenn หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Here's my honest question about polling. Polls don't reach out for larger sample sizes because its expensive. But Pollsters are polling 24/7, releasing polls on an often weekly basis. Maybe twice a week if there's a big event like the party convention. Wouldn't a more accurate model be releasing a monthly poll with 4 times the sample size?

    • @youtubewatcher2
      @youtubewatcher2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Of course but that would lead to a collapse of the cable news industry.

  • @soudaminipanda
    @soudaminipanda หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    Please also report the statistical power of the test.

    • @carrite
      @carrite หลายเดือนก่อน

      It's safe to assume almost all are using a 95% Confidence Interval.

  • @carrite
    @carrite หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Someday maybe ABC will enter the 1990s and allow a video feed for this pod.

  • @philosophersage
    @philosophersage หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    I remember in past election, the 538 model allowed for "calling" a state so that we could then see the conditional probability of a candidate winning given the results of some states. are there plans to do that again this year?

    • @j.s.c.4355
      @j.s.c.4355 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      I think they were allowing that earlier this year, but they changed it a couple of weeks ago.

    • @micahmcfarlane5303
      @micahmcfarlane5303 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      check the article with the title "Explore The Ways Trump Or Harris Could Win The 2024 Election"

    • @philosophersage
      @philosophersage หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@micahmcfarlane5303 yup, that hit the spot, thank you

    • @philosophersage
      @philosophersage หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@micahmcfarlane5303 yup, this is what I was looking for

  • @janaka861
    @janaka861 หลายเดือนก่อน

    ”Sometimes outliers are correct” - this is the definition of statistics. An outlier is just that - it will happen over time.

  • @j.s.c.4355
    @j.s.c.4355 หลายเดือนก่อน

    And if the polls are consistent for a week or two, can you aggregate them and does that reduce the margin of error?

    • @carrite
      @carrite หลายเดือนก่อน

      The assumption would have to be that all polls sample appropriately and identically, which is not the case.

  • @nottwo
    @nottwo หลายเดือนก่อน

    Are margins of error normally distributed or uniformly distributed? The way it’s talked about in this episode makes it sound like it’s uniform but I've always been under the impression it should be thought of as normally distributed.

  • @bigredmer
    @bigredmer หลายเดือนก่อน +9

    I love this topic, but don't need to be hearing the bell sound every 30 seconds

  • @stancal9249
    @stancal9249 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Oofta. The "explain it like you would explain it to a child" portion kind of lost the plot of the bit 😂

  • @Henry-q4m8e
    @Henry-q4m8e หลายเดือนก่อน +124

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    • @moseshassan
      @moseshassan หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      I'm highly inspired.
      Please spill some sugar about the bi-weekly stuff you mentioned.

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      @Henry-q4m8e หลายเดือนก่อน

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      @moseshassan หลายเดือนก่อน

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    • @Henry-q4m8e
      @Henry-q4m8e หลายเดือนก่อน

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    • @moseshassan
      @moseshassan หลายเดือนก่อน

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  • @AceGigalo
    @AceGigalo หลายเดือนก่อน +7

    Why is there no video? Set up a damn google meets call

  • @jacksonmadison9994
    @jacksonmadison9994 หลายเดือนก่อน

    How to read the polls? Don't. Just listen to Allan Lichtman's election prediction.

  • @ChristopherLWeeks
    @ChristopherLWeeks หลายเดือนก่อน

    What kind of dinosaur do you have to be to answer the phone when someone calls?
    Also, I get texts all the time asking me to take a poll, but I assume they're really just some hostile org trying to collect marketing (or worse) information about me. How would I even try to participate in real polls if I wanted to do so without putting myself at risk?

  • @masonm600
    @masonm600 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    Why dive into this? Bc there are only so many ways to say "it's still 50/50"

  • @sle81
    @sle81 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    NYT has NOT been accurate in any way in the past. Lol

  • @ckq
    @ckq หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    All this talk about this election is so annoying and repetitive, no matter what happens no one knows what's happening.
    Its been a tossup forever even back in 2020.
    I think we should collectively ignore polling until 1 candidate surpasses an 80% chance of winning then it may be relevant

    • @PhiltheMoko
      @PhiltheMoko หลายเดือนก่อน +9

      Why on earth are you here if you find talk about the election annoying? That's like going to a sports bar and complaining about all these people talking about football all the time.

  • @kestrelpounces
    @kestrelpounces หลายเดือนก่อน

    This was so helpful! This morning a pundit was celebrating the new Bloomberg poll and i paused and said "OK, but what is the poll quality? I wonder how 538 rates it!" I'd like to get excited but I won't be 2016ed again if I can help it! 🩵

  • @j.s.c.4355
    @j.s.c.4355 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    And if the polls are consistent for a week or two, can you aggregate them and does that reduce the margin of error?

    • @forresthsu582
      @forresthsu582 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Yes! That's what they mean when they recommend paying attention to the average