Putting the results in context

NYT Upshot released the results of a new poll, in which respondents from Alabama were asked for whom they will vote: Democrat Hillary Clinton or Republican Donald Trump.

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

Putting the results in context

As any other method, polls are subject to bias. Therefore, as a general rule, a good strategy is to not have too much faith in the results of a single poll. At the very least, one should check how a poll's results compare to benchmark forecasts.

To make the results comparable to forecasts from benchmark methods, one can translate them into shares of the two-party vote. The corresponding figures are 98.8% for Clinton and 0.0% for Trump.

Results in 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 60.2% and Trump % of the two-party vote in Alabama.

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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