<iframe src="//www.googletagmanager.com/ns.html?id=GTM-K3L4M3" height="0" width="0" style="display:none;visibility:hidden">

Flat White

What was wrong with the polls?

27 May 2019

2:44 PM

27 May 2019

2:44 PM

Living with uncertainty is the thing most humans find most difficult.

And while it’s virtually impossible to be certain even about the exact details of the past, it is completely impossible to be certain about the future.

Yet that is the standard we demand of our pollsters, even when they don’t attempt to measure the future.

Already a subscriber? Log in

Black Friday sale

Subscribe today and get 10 weeks of The Spectator Australia for just $1

  • Unlimited access to spectator.com.au and app
  • The weekly edition on the Spectator Australia app
  • Spectator podcasts and newsletters
  • Full access to spectator.co.uk
Or

Unlock this article

REGISTER


Comments

Black Friday sale

Subscribe today and get 10 weeks of The Spectator Australia for just $1

Already a subscriber? Log in

Close