«We're trying to figure out how 17
different polling companies got it totally wrong,» Slaughter said.
Not exact matches
At the end of last month, one survey put the party on 7 %; the following day another
poll from a
different company had them at 19 %.
Every single one of those
polls, conducted by no less than five
different companies, has put the Yes side -LSB-...]
In YouGov
polls a large chunk of former Liberal Democrats now say they'll vote Labour, so as a consequence of their
different Lib Dem scores ICM also end up showing a lower Labour score than most other
companies... hence the 1 point Tory lead yesterday.
Using
different methods, pollsters are divided about the extent of the Conservative lead, but they all show the gap with Labour shrinking, making the landslide Mrs. May hoped for unlikely and even, for at least one
polling company, raising the possibility of a hung Parliament.
(*) NB — Panelbase / SNP question was asked after other questions that could have had a potential skewing affect (**) NB — Ashcroft
polls are carried out by
different companies, so should not be taken as a single data trend.
Over 109
different companies polled participated in this report and most relied on social media, app review websites and viral videos in order to promote their content.
In a
poll of scientists in
different fields by Doran and Kendall Zimmerman (2009), 97 % of those who published at least half of their peer - reviewed research in the climate field agreed that human activity was significant in changing global temperature; at the other extreme, only 47 % of economic geologists (typically employed by oil
companies and the like) concurred.