In a country where political leaders hop parties, parties switch alliances and voter choices are volatile, opinion polls offered mathematicians a platform to demonstrate the power of statistics, Rajeeva L. Karandikar, Director, Chennai Mathematical Institute said on Thursday.
Addressing a lecture-discussion on ‘The science behind opinion polls’ hosted by The Hindu Centre for Politics and Public Policy, Prof. Karandikar said while the opinion poll was neither “the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth” nor wholly about “lies, damned lies and statistics”, sampling, if properly done, had the power of determining the winner.
Source: The Hindu, CHENNAI, March 7, 2014
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