Putting the results in context

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

The poll was in the field. The sample size was 0 participants.

Putting the results in context

In general, however, don't have too much faith in the results of single polls, as they often incorporate large errors. At the very least, one should check how a poll's results compare to benchmark forecasts.

To make the results comparable to forecasts from other methods, you can translate them into shares of the two-party vote. This yields figures of 96.1% 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 64.9% and Trump % of the two-party vote in Idaho.

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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