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Political Polling Becomes Alarmingly Inaccurate as More Households Give Up Landlines

The problem of cellphone-only households is only increasing for political pollsters. Political stats expert Nate Silver says the problem now introduces a "statistically significant bias" for pollsters.READ»

How Are Florida and Utah Keeping Swine Flu at Bay?

When FiveThirtyEight's political minesweeper Nate Silver analyzes the data from Google Flu Trends, there are bound to be some notable results. We're previously written about how Google Flu Trends uses flu-related search data to ...READ»