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What’s the ticket to disrupting Americans’ growing mistrust of political polling? Humility. In this episode of Quantum Potential, Vanderbilt Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions co-director, professor of political science, and NBC News senior election analyst Josh Clinton joins Provost C. Cybele Raver to discuss how transparency, statistical literacy—including an awareness of limitations—and rigor in political polling can help protect its integrity.
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