{"id":17284,"date":"2015-05-09T20:27:00","date_gmt":"2015-05-09T19:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=17284"},"modified":"2015-05-09T20:27:00","modified_gmt":"2015-05-09T19:27:00","slug":"british-general-election-17-how-did-all-the-polls-get-it-so-wrong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=17284","title":{"rendered":"British general election (17): how did all the polls get it so wrong?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/election-2015-32650742\">failure of all the polls<\/a> to predict the actual outcome of the General Election has rightly caused many questions to be asked. There is to be <a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/general-election-2015\/11592840\/Independent-inquiry-announced-into-what-went-wrong-with-election-polls.html\">an inquiry commissioned by the British Polling Council<\/a> into what went wrong.<\/p>\n<p>But this is a wider problem than Britain, In other countries, like the USA and Israel, polls have recently got things badly wrong and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.politico.com\/story\/2015\/05\/british-election-polling-flop-conservatives-surveys-117772.html\">some hard thinking<\/a> is taking place.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The failure of all the polls to predict the actual outcome of the General Election has rightly caused many questions to be asked. There is to be an inquiry commissioned by the British Polling Council into what went wrong. But this is a wider problem than Britain, In other countries, like the USA and Israel, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,4,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17284","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-us-current-affairs","category-british-current-affairs","category-world-current-affairs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17284","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17284"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17284\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17290,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17284\/revisions\/17290"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17284"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}