Rethinking Prediction: Were You Still Up When Bob Called It For Kerry?
Mark Earls Ogilvy Group London
INTRODUCTION
This paper was inspired by my own rather embarrassing failure to predict the outcome of the US Presidential correctly,...
Rethinking prediction: Were you still up when Bob called it for Kerry?
Discusses, in the context of the 2004 U.S. presidential election the difficulties of predicting human behaviour, why we expect too much of research data, and why polls and surveys are imperfect instruments.
