Putting the results in context

Results of a new poll administered by NYT Upshot were published. The poll asked respondents from South Carolina for whom they will vote: Republican Donald Trump or Democrat Hillary Clinton.

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

Putting the results in context

As a general rule, however, a good strategy is to not have too much faith in the results of single polls, as they can contain large errors. Rather, one should check how a poll's results compare to benchmark forecasts.

In order to make the results comparable to forecasts from other methods, we translate them into shares of the two-party vote. This procedure yields values of 67.4% for Clinton and 0.0% for Trump.

Results compared 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 53.8% and Trump % of the two-party vote in South Carolina.

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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