Abstract
In 1970, when political polling was twenty-five years old in the Netherlands, I wrote:
Predicting election results a few days before an election is a fairly useless sort of prognosis. It is not a basis for decisions and rightly so; a few days later one knows the full facts. It also is a not very useful way of utilising sampling procedures. Within a very short time election results will be known and total counts are more exact than samples.1
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Marcel van Dam and J. Beishuizen, ‘Kijk op kiezer’ (1976).
Robbert Ammerlaan, ‘Het verschijnsel Schmelzer’ (1973), p. 259.
Hadley Cantril, Gauging Public Opinion (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1944).
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Stapel, J. (1983). Political Opinion Polling in the Netherlands. In: Worcester, R.M. (eds) Political Opinion Polling. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-05744-3_9
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