Sentence examples for conventional polling from inspiring English sources
It was also cheap, costing £3.80 per vote compared with £4.96 per vote using conventional polling stations.
Panelists are paid to participate — which is a big no-no in conventional polling — and their identities are validated by their home addresses and other personal details.
He said: "Conventional polling is saying that there is nothing to choose between the parties, whereas the hunch of the crowd continues to be that the Tories will have the edge.
Sources of errors in conventional polling include faulty demographic models by pollsters who weigh their samples by particular variables (such as party identification in an election, age, location).
The simulation and analysis demonstrates significant power saving and relatively low average end-to-end packet delay for this state-transition based approach, in comparison to the conventional polling system and the low power sniff mode.
Since Twitter users are not representative of the registered (eligible) voters nor of the turnout at elections/referendum (see the demographic chart in Fig. 5), we apply a demographic correction, similar to what is done regularly in conventional polling.
This time it looks as if the conventional polls have caught up with ours.
No conventional poll disqualifies an answer on the ground of mere total ignorance.
The assumption is as follows: if a conventional poll is correct, and if the usage of Twitter is independent of the referendum stance, by applying age weighting on poll results, we should get the same result as our Twitter stance timeline.
However, analysis of campaigns on social media and the responses of the social media users can provide interesting insight, like identification of influential Twitter users, sanity checks for election/referendum polls, and together with conventional polls some confidence bounds of the election/referendum forecasts.
WASHINGTON -- Though he remains, by measures of conventional wisdom and polling data, an outsider in the Democratic presidential primary, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt).
