How do public opinion polls work? And, more importantly, are they accurate? Jason Robert Jaffe reveals the complexities and biases of polls and provides tips on how to think about polls as we make everyday decisions.

In the run up to the election a lot of people, including us, spent a lot of time looking at the polls. So when election night rolled around and we didn't see a huge blue wave, some started to doubt the polls they'd been studying. So in...

In 2016 many were shocked by Trump's victory. Polls hadn't predicted it and many were just surprised by the preferences of their fellow Americans. This time around people are cautious about being stung again, and therefore it seems that...

Over recent weeks and months, Joe Biden has held a solid lead over Donald Trump in polling, suggesting that Biden might be on track to win in November. However, some are sceptical of polls like these, or at least cautious following...

One of the most important moments of election night is the release of the exit poll. The exit poll tries to gauge how people voted and which party will hold power at the end of the night. In this video, we discuss how they do it and if...

Elections are filled with various polls, but they seem to never say the same thing. Why is that? Well here I go through some of the common polling errors that happen to pollsters when they do election polls. This is also helpful to know...

Polling underestimated Trump's support in both 2016 and 2020, and questions have arisen over whether they're a reliable metric. So with the midterms coming up, we discuss the factors that influence the polls and whether we can trust them...

Kier Starmer has been leading Labour for about 10 months now, but some are already keen to see the back of him. So in this video, we take a look at the polling, see how his performance compares to the Tories & Corbyn and discuss why some...

Having led for weeks and often by a considerable margin, recent polling has put Labour ahead of the Conservatives for the first time in Starmer's Tenure. But what is driving the collapse of Johnson's support? In this video, we look at...

Biden Surges in the Polls Following BLM & COVID: But Does it Matter?

This video addresses a specific challenge related to the Transactional Outbox pattern, which is the need for a mechanism to detect and process new events in the outbox table, and explores different approaches, including listening and...

If you look at the polls it appears that the Conservatives have a pretty easy route to number 10, with the party outperforming their opposition in essentially all of the polls. However, we wanted to take a moment to question the validity...

This video helps in developing SQS event source mapping polling invocation of ordering Lambda microservice with DynamoDB Client—AWS SDK for JavaScript version 3.
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During political elections, news organizations often use public opinion polls to help gauge which candidate is the front runner, and why. University of Michigan's Dr. Vincent Hutchings explains the science of random sampling that...

This video explains polling events and event source mappings—Lambda invocation types.
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This video explains Amazon SQS short and long polling.
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Despite a very small honeymoon boost, Rishi Sunak's polling is looking pretty terrible. Already Labour have reopened their serious lead and the new Tory leader isn't looking all that strong. So in this video we unpack what he's doing &...

Despite a rough start to his tenure and still trailing Labour, Sunak's polling is starting to trend upwards and is closing the gap on Starmer. In this video, we break down what's led to this improvement and whether the Tories could win...

This video explores the Twenty-Fourth Amendment, ratified in 1964, which abolished poll taxes as a requirement for voting in federal elections. Learn how this amendment was a key victory of the Civil Rights movement, aimed at removing...

Polling guru Nate Silver has revealed his final prediction model for the 2024 presidential election – and has concluded the race between Kamala Harris and Donald Trump is “literally closer than a coin flip.”In Silver’s model, Harris won...

This video explains the concept of consumer poll behaviour in Kafka.
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