Putting the results in context

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

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

Putting the results in context

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

In order to make the results comparable to benchmark forecasts, you can translate them into shares of the two-party vote. This procedure yields figures of 10.4% for Clinton and 0.0% for Trump.

Results in comparison to other polls

In comparison to the average results of other polls Clinton performed worse with 0.0 percentage points, while Trump did better with 0.0 percentage points. The most recent PollyVote predicts Clinton to gain 45.6% and Trump % of the two-party vote in Michigan.

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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