Eleven Three Twenty: How to Read Political Polls Like a Pro

David D. Knapp, Ph.D.
5 min readOct 5, 2020

October 5, 2020

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Election Day is now only four weeks from tomorrow, which means we are about to be flooded by a tsunami of daily polls. Some of these polls will be high-quality snapshots of where the election stands. Others will be absolutely useless due to the pollster’s bias or poor methodology. Still others may be designed well but still be a statistical…

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David D. Knapp, Ph.D.

President of Marathon Leadership, LLC — an organizational and leadership consulting firm based in Thornton, CO. Learn more at http://marathonleadership.com/