U.S. Expert: Israeli Media Distort Polls
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How reliable are pre-election polls? Local media distort survey results, fail to present accurate picture, American professor says. Polls mishandled large number of undecided voters, Kenneth Goldstein charges.
The margin of error of pre-election polls presented to the Israeli public is too large to show an accurate picture of what will unfold on Election Day, an American poll expert told Ynet.
The handling of the large number of undecided voters, which borders on mysterious, and media distortion of survey results make it difficult even for experts to predict what is in store, says Kenneth Goldstein, a political science professor at the University of Wisconsin.