
Adam Berinsky
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Aug 17, 2026
What's The Matter With Polling? with Adam Berinsky (Episode 23)
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Adam BerinskyGUEST
So there's good polls and bad polls, and there's good phone polls and bad phone polls, same thing with internet polls.

Adam BerinskyGUEST
I think what you want to be suspicious of is, you know, sort of places that conduct internet polls that are kind of like, you know, so when I was young, there used to be like call-in polls, like we'd dial 1-900 numbers to get your voice heard.

Adam BerinskyGUEST
And there's a lot of internet polls that are like that these days, where you have people who are asking their audiences, you know, vote on how you feel about this.

Adam BerinskyGUEST
So, you know, I teach a polling class to undergraduates at MIT and graduate students as well, but sort of talk about, you know, showing them some potential problems with different polls, right? And I show them a poll from 2022 that asks, how do you feel about Joe Biden? And 99% of the respondents say he's a terrible president.

Adam BerinskyGUEST
And then I show them, you know, so should we trust this? And then I show them that actually it was a poll that was conducted on BillOReilly.com, right? And so it's, of the people who, you know, follow Bill O'Reilly on the internet, 99% of the people don't like Biden, but it doesn't mean that 99% of the public doesn't like Biden.
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