The pollsters were wrong — again. Why do we listen to them?

Political polling is a fraud. It claims to measure something that, it is now unmistakably clear, cannot be accurately measured. Polling s seductive promise is that it will take the guesswork out of understanding a complex and changing set of circumstances and replace that uncertainly with something that looks like science.

But it s less like the physics that helps us shoot rockets into space and more like the set of the spaceship on Star Trek. It s shiny. It has a lot of dials and lights. Things beep. But if you put it on the Cape Canaveral launchpad and lit it on fire, you would just burn to death.

via nypost.com

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