Murder at Polling Manor
Journal: Harvard Data Science Review
Year: 2024

The jolliest part of launching and editing HDSR?The sheer freedom to try the inconceivable-or perhaps even the impermissible.A Murder on the Nile or Murder by Decree theme for a data science journal?Why not!After all, the suspense and nail-biting tension stirred up by election polling numbers rivals these fictional whodunits.But just how much trust can we place in those numbers?I tackled such questions in Meng (2018), uncovering the sobering fact that opinions from 2.3 million respondents fared