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2011 Ohio Senate Bill 5 Repeal Pollster Ratings

The following table lists the accuracy of pollsters in the November 8, 2011 election for the Ohio Senate Bill 5 repeal using the measure of polling accuracy proposed by Martin, Traugott, and Kennedy.  

Ohio Senate Bill 5 Repeal
Yes No Odds
Ratio
Accuracy
PPP 36% 59% 0.97 -0.03
Quinnipiac 32% 57% 0.89 -0.12
Actual 38.7% 61.3%

 

The accuracy measure for the Public Policy Polling survey is within the 95% confidence interval.

The accuracy measure for the Quinnipiac survey falls outside the 95% confidence interval. The Quinnipiac sample size of 1,668 did not increase the accuracy of the survey.

 

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