The main thing polls do Today is to make most every race a neck-and-neck nail-biter. For any race where one candidate is a runaway leader, they cause weaklings to drop out quickly and those that remain to do _something_ to "up their game" to be more competitive. This will accomplish two things: The public and competitors will clamor for more polls (like taking a patient's blood pressure every half-hour, just to see if anything has changed). And the pollsters make A LOT more money. Meaning that the pollsters are motivated to interpret results to keep them within the margin of error.
The main thing polls do Today is to make most every race a neck-and-neck nail-biter. For any race where one candidate is a runaway leader, they cause weaklings to drop out quickly and those that remain to do _something_ to "up their game" to be more competitive. This will accomplish two things: The public and competitors will clamor for more polls (like taking a patient's blood pressure every half-hour, just to see if anything has changed). And the pollsters make A LOT more money. Meaning that the pollsters are motivated to interpret results to keep them within the margin of error.
"The public and competitors will clamor for more polls (like taking a patient's blood pressure every half-hour, just to see if anything has changed)".
I see what you did there! Thanks for reading.
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