Wednesday 9 October 2013

Is it weighting which influences the polls?

http://cdn.yougov.com/cumulus_uploads/document/tkhuvf7yw8/YG-Archive-Pol-Sun-results-081013.pdf

Above is todays YOU GOV POLL





It seems in areas where there has been a high response for what party those numbers are then inflated by an increase of weighting. age 18-24 goes up by 50% in a section high for one party but only by less than 5% in a section which has a different mix of voters. Even though it is well known that older voters are more likely to vote than younger ones.

I just think it is curious, what are your thoughts?

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