Putting the results in context

NYT Upshot published the results of a new poll. In this poll, respondents from Wyoming were asked for whom they will vote: Donald Trump or Hillary Clinton.

This poll was conducted, among a random sample of 0 participants.

Putting the results in context

As a general rule, however, one should not have too much faith in the results of single polls, since they often incorporate large errors. At the very least, one should examine how a poll's results compare to benchmark forecasts.

For the following comparison, we convert Clinton's and Trump's raw poll numbers into shares of the two-party vote. This procedure yields values of 97.3% for Clinton and 0.0% for Trump.

Comparison to other polls

In comparison to the average results of other polls Clinton performed better with 0.0 percentage points, while Trump did worse with 0.0 percentage points. The most recent PollyVote predicts Clinton to gain 70.8% and Trump % of the two-party vote in Wyoming.

This article was automatically generated by the PollyBot, which uses algorithms developed by AX Semantics to generate text from data stored in our API. The exact dataset underlying this particular article can be found here.

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