Society, Politics & Law
Explainer: how do you read an election poll?
...careful. These days, a typical opinion poll will involve asking maybe 1,000 or 2,000 carefully chosen people which party they intend to vote for. The people are chosen, as far as possible, to match the population of the area or country being polled, in terms of age, gender, some measure of social class, and probably other features such as work status (employed,...