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Josh Bornstein

As much as everything changes, everything stays the same

Another major election and another round of carnage for professional pollsters.

Journalist Mona Chalabi spoke for many of us when she wrote: “I do not know how many times polls have to be wrong or how wrong they have to be for us to finally walk away from the dangerous seduction of predicting political outcomes”. Agreed, but why confine the complaint to crystal ball gazing about elections?

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