Putting the results in context

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

The poll was conducted. The sample size was 0 participants.

Putting the results in context

As a general rule, however, don't have too much faith in the results of single polls, because they can incorporate large errors. Rather than relying on results from single polls, one should look at combined polls or, even better, a combined forecast that draws upon forecasts from different methods, each of which draws upon different data.

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 81.8% for Clinton and 0.0% for Trump.

Comparison to other polls

When compared 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 56.2% and Trump % of the two-party vote in Texas.

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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