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Polls have not had a good decade. And now in 2020 a reportedly unassailable lead in the polls resulted in a minute number of voters (<100,000 in total out of 145 million) in Arizona, Nevada, Georgia and Pennsylvania turning the tide… 0.05% of the total US electorate made the difference. So are polls factual information or fictional entertainment?
I’ve addressed predictions, before in acumen.sg… Read more
The Guardian reports; Voting in Indonesia’s presidential election has finished with both sides claiming an early victory and a messy couple of weeks in the offing.
• Quick counts – sample polls counted to give an indication of the overall result – suggested that former Jakarta governor Joko “Jokowi” Widodo, the favourite going into the election, had triumphed. Jokowi told supporters that he had scored a victory.… Read more