re: #16 Decatur Deb

Nate Silver has a critique of that Ipsos poll in today’s column—looks pretty sloppy or just casemaking. Romney still likely to take it, though.

[Link: fivethirtyeight.blogs.nytimes.com…]

I’m glad to see more focus on the math behind poll stats. Poll get lots of press in a presidential election, making poll reliability an important issue. Hopefully, additional issue focus will lead to better polling methodology.