Sentences with phrase «consistent bias»

Considering that most polls have maybe a 4 - 6 % typical error, this result was really quite within the range of possibility for most (although their consistent bias suggests that there really are some fundamental shortcomings).

Nate Silver remarked on his blog, when the Obama probability passed over 87 % or so, that all of the remaining probabilities for a Romney win were in the fringe of his analysis that assumed a consistent bias towards Democrats in the poll results, all erring in the same direction.

According to the strict dictionary definition, it is, in that the people concerned clearly conferred together to do something wrong — namely introduce a consistent bias in the scientific research, and then cover it up.