Putting the results in context

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

The poll was carried out with 0 respondents.

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, since they can contain large errors. Instead of relying on results from single polls, the recommended strategy consult combined polls or, even better, a combined forecast that relies on forecasts from different methods, each of which draws upon different data.

To make the results comparable to benchmark forecasts, you can translate them into two-party vote shares. This procedure results in figures of 72.2% for Clinton and 0.0% for Trump.

Results in 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 53.7% and Trump % of the two-party vote in Mississippi.

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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