As Americans await election results, many are looking to the polls for answers. JUMP TO: MARGIN OF ERROR l PHONE/DIGITAL l OUTLIER POLLS Dr. Andy Smith, from the University of New Hampshire Survey ...

"The polling industry is going through what I would call a paradigm shift, where we're moving from the types of methods that worked 30, 40 years ago and don't really work anymore," Smith said. He ...

That margin means that if you were to conduct this same survey with many samples of the same size, you could expect between 40.2 percent and 47.8 percent of likely voters to have a positive view ...

If a medication was tested on 10 individuals and seven of them found it effective, the estimated drug efficacy is 70%. But since the goal is to predict the efficacy in the whole population ...