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We were investigating Wedgewood for faking their data and emailed them for comment this morning, ahead of publishing the findings tomorrow. They are trying to cover up their fraud with the "we were doing a social experiment" excuse. Full story here: blog.fiftyplusone.news/p/fiftyplusone
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The polling industry needs major reform. Our statement below:
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Wedgewood Polls released this statement after FiftyPlusOne contacted them regarding evidence of fabricated poll data. They had shared fraudulent raw data the prior day and raised crowdfunding for polls presented as legitimate. blog.fiftyplusone.news/p/fiftyplusone… x.com/gelliottmorris…
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this is actually hilarious, all of legacy media pollsters were weighing fake data higher than others without doing any research holy fuck we are cooked
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Preston Hill
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Just a few examples of Wedgewood Polls holding significant weight in Silver Bulletin's polling averages:
Was Pollfish’s customer service team aware of why y’all were digging into their data structure? Just curious; thank you for this reporting.
It looks like their numbers were pretty much in line with other polls and always within the MOE of other polls. So what exactly was the point? No one hired them, they just put out apparently completely faked polls. I guess I'm waiting for the punchline???
Clearly you didn’t conduct appropriate vetting because you added fake data into your aggregate. Sure you caught them later but maybe admitting you made a mistake and never should have platformed them would be fair…
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The media could not be played.