Quantitative - Polling, Surveys, and the Audacity of Averaging People

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Quantitative - Polling, Surveys, and the Audacity of Averaging People

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Join host Nick Ledger as he explores polling's troubled history—from George Gallup's 1936 breakthrough to modern forecasting failures. This episode examines why response rates plummeted, how social desirability skews data, and what psychology's replication crisis reveals about quantitative overconfidence. Ledger unpacks p-hacking, Goodhart's Law, and the gap between measurement and understanding. Loved this episode? Discover more original shows from the Quiet Please Network at QuietPlease.ai, explore our curated favorites here amzn.to/42YoQGI, and catch just a slice of our AI hosts in action on Instagram at instagram.com/claredelish and YouTube at youtube.com/@DIYHOMEGARDENTV

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