Did researchers make a mistake on the elections again?
For years and year, in different countries, various continents, I have been conducting researches and I have been showing them to the politicians. Most often, as a firs slide they ask for political party rating, and as a second they want politician ratings – and that is what mostly what their interest is. Honestly, some of them look in which way does the country go and eventually the problems. They go through all other matchings and follow-up slides with a phone in their hands or with the “hurry up – why are you bothering me with this… “ look in their eyes. When we talk about rating of political parties there are only two reactions of the politicians: our rating is great and this research is not good at all, we have more for sure . In Serbia, BiH, East Africa (not in Bulgaria, which is interesting) bad ratings, provided by the researchers is usually followed up by the sentence: they have never guessed … This is why I was interested in how accurate were the researches f...