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- A: We calculate a grade for each pollster by analyzing its historical accuracy and methodology. You can read our full ratings and methodology to better understand how we calculate the grades.
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Feb 22, 2024 · 538’s pollster ratings are calculated by analyzing the historical accuracy and methodological transparency of each polling organization’s polls. We define accuracy as the average adjusted error and...
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Mar 10, 2023 · Excluding changes in provisional grades, which we give to pollsters that don’t have a large enough sample size of polls to assign a full grade to.
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Jan 25, 2024 · How we grade pollsters. If you're interested in all the gory details of how we calculate pollster ratings, please peruse our detailed methodological write-up at your leisure. But if all you need is a top-level overview, just know that our ratings reflect firms' scores on two dimensions of pollster quality.
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Jan 9, 2022 · Q: Why do some pollsters not have a grade? A: For some pollsters, we do not have any polls from the last three weeks of an election cycle, which means we can’t evaluate their...
Jan 25, 2024 · Our new pollster ratings are based on two fundamental criteria: Accuracy, as measured by the average error and average bias of a pollster's polls. We quantify error by calculating how close a pollster's surveys land to actual election results, adjusting for how difficult each contest is to poll.
Sep 21, 2022 · The analysis shows that, despite low response rates, national polls like the Center’s come within a few percentage points, on average, of benchmarks from high response rate federal surveys. The closer a poll estimate is to the benchmark, the more accurate it is considered to be. Consistent with past research, polling errors are larger for ...