A voter confronted with multiple polls that differ ought to consider a mixture of outcome distributions, making the problem more complicated still.
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Opinion polls generally gather information, albeit limited, about the socioeconomic background of respondents, including such items as age, gender, occupation, education, income, and family.
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The study that follows also examines the operation of the electoral system and the characteristics of the priests who emerged victorious from the polls.
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Finally, the participants are polled again to see how their opinions have changed.
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The study ranges citizens' juries at the top, followed in descending order by deliberative polls, citizens' panels, public meetings, focus groups, and opinion polls.
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The problem is that there are no minute-by-minute polls to show how other voters are updating.
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In 1922 labour polled 55.7 per cent at the general election but only 48.8 per cent at the municipal contest.
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Indeed, opinion polls in 1970 reported that 80 per cent of female respondents agreed that women with young children should not go out to work.
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Without polls, how could voters know which parties were likely to win, and hence how to vote strategically?
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The result is effectively polling the appropriate sensors once every second: loop_until_succeed :repeat, sleep(1), % delay 1 second display_drink_ad, !.
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Index rules appear regularly when optimizing polling systems.
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Control of polling in presence of vacations in heavy traffic with applications to satellite and mobile radio systems.
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Because their experiments or polls show that people, when faced with certain kinds of decisions, do not make the rational decision.
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In addition, the polls may not be updated to reflect how other strategic voters will act.
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On the other hand, it would be a mistake to conclude that these polls do not convey real information.
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national poll
As mentioned, additional questions on thenationalpollpermit further examination of unintentionalist claims.
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online poll
There were more than 400,000 votes cast in theonlinepollthat determined the winner.
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poll numbers
There is there an in-built suggestion that clerks at polling stations will be asking people for their poll numbers and cards.
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