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welcome to the cotkey ride home for monday November 2nd, 2020. I'm Jackson Bird.

Heading into the U.S. general election tomorrow, a refresher on why polls can be unreliable and how to read them responsibly.

An opportunity to own the vintage spyware gadgets of your dreams.

It's 2020, platypus glow in the dark now.

And a new site that will distract you from the election.

Here are some of the cool things from the news today.

Tomorrow is Election Day here in the U.S., and while we never really have all of the votes counted by the end of election night, that will be especially true this year, as so many more mail-in ballots will need to be tabulated, meaning it could be several

days or even a few weeks before we have a firm result. And given that, you are likely to be hearing

a lot about polling data. So I thought it was worth taking a minute to remind ourselves why it's

always good to be wary about poll numbers. The MIT Technology Review had a great

article over the weekend breaking down some of this, but it was actually more largely about a

2014 peer-reviewed study that depended on bad data and has completely informed most of the

arguments that you hear about voter fraud these days. And I'm not going to get into that side of the piece here, but if it is intriguing to you,

I highly recommend giving it a read, link in the show notes.

Also, if you are sick of hearing about election stuff, don't worry, like I said, at the top of the show,

I have a election distractor site recommendation for you at the end of the show, so just stick around for that.

But for now, polls and the problems they present. So many polls are conducted via phone, some of

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