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POLLSTERS: THE BIGGEST "LIARS" IN THE CAMPAIGN

If you are looking for anything (real) from pollsters in this campaign you might be very disappointed

I am sure that I am not the only one thinking about this....Polling looks more like a goofball science than anything that is reliable...did you notice that right before (a day before) the Iowa Caucus that they took a poll...a million groups took polls of who was going to win, lose, etc...No one came close!....most polls (which claim to have a margin of error of +/- 3 points were 10 points off...Marco Rubio got 10% more of the vote than ANY poll gave him...Trump got about 10 points lower than ANY poll....Bernie Sanders wasn’t closer than 4 points in ANY poll that I saw prior to the Iowa Caucus. He got 50% of the vote. Now, I am seeing polls that have Bernie up on Hillary in New Hampshire by 31 points, and by 16 points...that is a huge gap...not +/- 3 points...I think the true margin of error is infinite...who came up with that silly “statistical” calculation (+/- 3 points). They never get it close...

Really, I took statistics in college and in high school and I can’t believe that the science has deteriorated to this level..or is this just the way the science is being applied?

Palm Reading is more scientific than these pollsters. There is so little credibility amongst pollsters that we should look somewhere else...Ouija Board, maybe...

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How many people are making a living at this game? Besides, pretty much every third household has their own poll...it is like Fantasy Football. One poll is called the Quinnipiac Poll...really? Is there one called the ”Jack O’Lantern”?

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