Exit Polls, Explained: What They Can And Can't Tell Us About The 2018 Midterm Elections
Exit polls are a valuable source of data. What exit polls are:For decades, news organizations’ exit polls have been conducted by Edison Research for the National Election Pool, a partnership of ABC, CBS, CNN, Fox, NBC and The Associated Press. What exit polls should, and shouldn’t, be used for:Exit poll numbers serve a couple of different purposes. Fundamentally, exit polls are just surveys, and are subject to many of the same sources of error as any other poll. Before that happens, exit polls can present a misleading picture of the race.
Source: Huffington Post November 06, 2018 15:49 UTC
