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Oct 22, 2026
How FiftyPlusOne busted a fake pollster
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21:03G. Elliott MorrisHOST
I'm just going to provide one short take here.
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21:06G. Elliott MorrisHOST
Mary, when we were at FiveThirtyEight, I invented a new measure of pollster quality there that combined the accuracy-based metrics that Nate Silver had made with this really cool data set that the pollster, Mystery Pollster, Mark Blumenthal, he's not a mystery, that was his old blog name, developed to grade the transparency of pollsters based on the literal pieces of information they divulged about the way that their survey was conducted.
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21:37G. Elliott MorrisHOST
I want to bring that back.
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21:38G. Elliott MorrisHOST
Mary, do you think we could start torturing you into gathering that data again? Not until after the