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Oct. 19, 2012
Making Sense of Presidential Polls
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In less than a month, the 2012 presidential election turned from an almost certain victory for President Obama to a neck-and-neck race. New York Times blogger and statistician Nate Silver and Princeton neuroscientist Sam Wang talk about making sense of the polls -- and why not all votes are created equal.
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Produced by Christopher Intagliata, Associate Senior Producer
Produced by Jon Chang, Science Friday Intern
Guests
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Nate Silver
Author, "The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions Fail--But Some Don't" (The Penguin Press, 2012)
Writer, FiveThirtyEight blog
The New York Times
New York City, New York -
Sam Wang
Founder, Princeton Election Consortium
Associate Professor, Neuroscience and Molecular Biology
Princeton University
Princeton, New Jersey
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