Falsifying Data

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Falsifying Data

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Jun 1, 2015

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In the first of a few episodes on fraud in election research, we’ll take a look at a case study from a previous Presidential election, where polling results were faked.

What are some telltale signs that data fraud might be present in a dataset? We’ll explore that in this episode.

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Jun 1, 2015

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