ARF Podcast Explores Why No One Predicted the Trump Win and Implications for Consumer Insights (A Text Analytics PollTM )
Most of us are still scratching our heads as to how no one in this business predicted the outcome of the 2016 Presidential Race.
On Tuesday November 29 from 8:30-11a.m. EST, the ARF and GreenBook are running a special podcast on this topic: Predicting Election 2016: What Worked, What Didn’t and the Implications for Marketing & Insights.
I’ve been asked to participate as a panelist and to elaborate on the topic covered in my post-election blog here. I can tell you the problems pollsters faced are not so different from those we face in marketing research every day.
Accordingly, the podcast will feature a roster of industry experts to explore the implications of this polling failure for commercial research and analytics, including:
- Trust in research (especially surveys)
- New tools and techniques
- Predicting and modeling behavior or trends
- Implicit vs. explicit data sources
- The application of cognitive and behavioral psychology, and more!
At this point you may be suffering from election fatigue. I get it.
But if your job involves predicting consumer behavior, you won’t want to miss this!
Tom H. C. Anderson
OdinText Inc.
www.odintext.com
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2 Responses
A lot of discussion re predicting the Election incorrectly. If we knew how to predict elections, what’s the point in having them? Corollary: Once we learn how to predict the future, no one need create it. Why bother?
Or maybe we can “change the future.” Is that what is known as a paradox?
Thanks Terry, you can now view the actual presentation on this blog post http://odintext.com/blog/how-did-the-media-get-it-so-wrong/ .
RE Predicting the future, there’s a reason we named it OdinText 😉 [ http://odintext.com/blog/leif-erikson-text-analytics-whats-the-connection/ ]