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How the polls could have caught 'surprise' victories like Trump's

  • Written by Fred Wright, Director of the Bioinformatics Research Center, North Carolina State University
Many pollsters have been asked to explain why they didn't better predict the 2016 election. 3dfoto/shutterstock.com

The election of Donald Trump to the U.S. presidency surprised almost everyone, including apparently Trump himself.

On the morning after the 2016 election, my teenage son made snarky comments about the state of polling and statistical...

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