Read the following article:

https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/what-the-hell-is-happening-with-these-alabama-polls/

Answer the following questions either in the text entry or in a word processing program then upload your answers.

• What does it mean to weight a poll?
• By weighting the poll, what type of sampling method are they effectively using?
• Which survey type (live, robo, online) did Silver think had the greatest potential for social desirability bias and why?
• What demographic did most automated pollsters weight by that live interview polls did not?
• Which pollster released many versions of their poll using different weighting schemes that gave vastly different results?
• Who ultimately won the election and by what margin? (this information isn't in the article, but should be very easy to find) Which type of poll showed a result most similar to this?