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Opinion polls can affect the way people vote–even on Election Day. The sad thing about all this is that they are NOT accurate! When a recent post-election analysis measured the accuracy of polls leading up to midterm elections, the findings indicated not only inaccuracies from a number of polling organizations, but BIAS in their predictions. What causes these statistical slipups and polling prejudices–is it the result of bias in polling organizations or an expected reality of predictive polling? Researcher Virginia Miori is not surprised by this. She says, "Surveys and polls are known for problems with bias even in the best cases." Miori describes polling as a delicate science in which something as simple as the time of day a poll is conducted affects its outcome.read more

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As voters go to the poles today, we realize that the recession is hitting us ALL hard, but it turns out that race (which plays a big part in many areas of life) has played a part in the recent epidemic of mortgage foreclosures. A new study shows that show that black segregation, and to a lesser extent Hispanic segregation, are powerful predictors of the number and rate of foreclosures in the United States. Researcher Jacob Rugh says, "This study is critical to our understanding of the foreclosure crisis since it shows the important and independent role that racial segregation played in the housing bust."
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As you get ready to vote, reflect on this: According to new research, liberals may owe their political outlook partly to their genetic make-up, because political ideology is affected not just by social factors, but also by a dopamine receptor gene called DRD4.

When researchers asked 2,000 subjects about their politics, then took blood samples from them, they found that people with a specific variant of the DRD4 gene are more likely to be liberal as adults, but ONLY if they had an active social life as teenagers.

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