Susan elliott morris, poster and data journalist, your new book is entitled, strength in numbers how polls work and why we need them. This title reflects your philosophy about polls. Why do you think polls really play an important part in our society . Elliott that is the question of the book. When i set out to write it, i started from a statistical perspective. I am a reporter, not a pollster. When you consider a lot of polling information, you started to notice that they get things wrong frequently. The average in polls is what we like to focus on when forecasting elections but more importantly is what pollsters ask of people, what they want from the government and what leaders to Pay Attention to, the problems they want them to solve. So we have a plethora of clinical polling information before elections and they sometimes get things wrong but the issue of polls is accurate. I wanted to ask what we can make of the issue polling data, not to forecast an election but to increase repre
Susan elliott morris, poster and data journalist, your new book is entitled, strength in numbers how polls work and why we need them. This title reflects your philosophy about polls. Why do you think polls really play an important part in our society . Elliott that is the question of the book. When i set out to write it, i started from a statistical perspective. I am a reporter, not a pollster. When you consider a lot of polling information, you started to notice that they get things wrong frequently. The average in polls is what we like to focus on when forecasting elections but more importantly is what pollsters ask of people, what they want from the government and what leaders to Pay Attention to, the problems they want them to solve. So we have a plethora of clinical polling information before elections and they sometimes get things wrong but the issue of polls is accurate. I wanted to ask what we can make of the issue polling data, not to forecast an election but to increase repre