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On this week’s Strength In Numbers podcast, G. Elliott Morris and David Nir invited Elliott’s colleague at FiftyPlusOne, Mary Radcliffe, onto the show to explain how we caught one pollster lying about its data, and what led another to delete its entire internet history.
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Timestamps:
02:29 Wedgewood Polls: how the fabrication was exposed
15:26 Past fraud cases and the history of fake polling
31:25 Using raw data to find patterns of fraud
43:34 Possible motives—and why this problem could get worse
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