Predicting elections: Experts, polls, and fundamentals

This study analyzes the relative accuracy of experts, polls, and the so-called ‘fundamentals’ in predicting the popular vote in the four U.S. presidential elections from 2004 to 2016. Although the majority (62%) of 452 expert forecasts correctly predicted the directional error of polls, the typical...

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Main Author: Andreas Graefe
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Society for Judgment and Decision Making 2018-07-01
Series:Judgment and Decision Making
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Online Access:http://journal.sjdm.org/18/18124/jdm18124.pdf