Election bonus: Can we trust the polls? – with special guest Prof. John Curtice
Oh God, What Now?
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🗓️ 26 June 2024
⏱️ 26 minutes
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| 0:28.0 | Search Phoenix Group living longer. Hello and edition of Oh God, what now? I'm Jacob Jarvis, and today we're going to be discussing the polls, which by my estimation, |
| 0:46.6 | look horrifically bad for Sunak and increasingly good for Starma. |
| 0:50.4 | I'm no expert, luckily my guest today is though. Here to discuss the numbers with me |
| 0:55.2 | is a man the New York Times called the One Man Everyone Trusts on UK Election Nights. |
| 0:59.4 | He's probably the most recognizable Polling in Britain it's professor John |
| 1:03.7 | Curtis hello John thank you joining me today hi how nice to be with you let's do the |
| 1:08.3 | big question first then how much do you trust these polls and the main sway of the figures? |
| 1:15.1 | Well, I mean, I think the first thing I would say to, and I always say to anybody about |
| 1:18.4 | this, is the polls should be taken but not inhaled. |
| 1:21.1 | They should give us a broad indication of the range of results that |
| 1:25.8 | looks potentially conceivable or likely, but we shouldn't necessarily assume |
| 1:30.6 | that they're going to give us a pinpoint accuracy. |
| 1:33.4 | And inevitably, particularly given we've now got more polls than ever, |
| 1:36.9 | there's a certain amount of variation. So at the moment if you take the polls |
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