I don’t love it when the polls don’t pay out with clear data. Single polls by themselves are not too reliable, so aggregators combine the polls. Then the aggregators assign weights to each individual poll based on multiple criteria. I would call these weights “confidence factors”. If you are familiar with the Marquis d’Condorcet’s theory, then who assig…
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