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Why the 2015 General Election Opinion Polls were wrong - the report
19th January 2016
The findings from the inquiry into the poor predictions by opinion polls for the 2015 General Election have been published today - unrepresentative samples, combined with poor "statistical adjustment procedures" by the polling organisations, are to blame.
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