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Philippe J. Fournier publishes pollster ratings page1. Fournier's public methodology page describes a mostly proportional swing model with regional adjustments.

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Philippe J. Fournier publishes pollster ratings page

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“published pollster ratings page”
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Fournier's public methodology page describes a mostly proportional swing model with regional adjustments

338Canada is a single dominant aggregator

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“a single dominant aggregator (338Canada)”
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TheWrit.ca/338Canada are the closest to a Canadian equivalent of FiveThirtyEight

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“TheWrit.ca/338Canada are the closest, but both are essentially aggregators with editorial commentary, not investigative quantitative shops”
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there is no methodological consensus in Canadian psephology on whether to correct for cumulative known-directional bias

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“there is no methodological consensus in Canadian psephology on whether to correct for cumulative known-directional bias”
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the model weights polls by recent accuracy

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“Firm weighting by recent accuracy.”
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Canadian by-elections expose systematic riding-level model error that is invisible at the national-aggregate level

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“The pattern that emerges: **Canadian by-elections expose systematic riding-level model error that is invisible at the national-aggregate level**”
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Toronto–St. Paul's was an uninstrumented event

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“Toronto–St. Paul's was an *uninstrumented* event — no public riding poll existed because the cost of a 400-respondent telephone poll in a single urban riding cannot be recovered by any commissioning newspaper.”
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the binomial standard error is √(0.40·0.60/1500) = 1.26 percentage points

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“For an n=1,500 sample at p=0.40, the binomial standard error is √(0.40·0.60/1500) = **1.26 percentage points**”
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These are things people say about 338Canada that aren't settled fact — each one attributed to who's actually claiming it, so a claim never quietly passes as established just because it showed up in a document. Weigh it yourself.

Disputed
"the model is mechanically herd-following"
Asserted by Philippe J. Fournier · stance: critical
The evidence on file mostly supports this, but it's still someone's claim, not a settled fact.
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Disputed
"338Canada's outlier-penalty algorithm should be publicly audited"
Unattributed assertion · stance: pro
Not yet independently weighed — one source's claim, unconfirmed elsewhere.
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