Collective intelligence Quote by Louis B. Rosenberg

The so-called science of poll-taking is not a science at all but mere necromancy. People are unpredictable by nature, and although you can take…

— E. B. White

Taking a vote or poll is a great simple way to take a decision, but it doesn't help a group find consensus. It actually…

— Louis B. Rosenberg

Polling can only tell us so much. It captures a moment in time that can be sustainable or utterly fleeting. It can also be…

— Jessica Tarlov

Votes are like trees, if you are trying to build a forest. If you have more trees than you have forests, then at that…

— Dan Quayle

Polling is an art as well as a science, and the art of crafting good questions is still vital.

— Kristen Soltis Anderson

I was surprised that when you get into electoral politics how scientific the analysis was in the electorate. You can identify on a state-by-state…

— Bill Foster

I don't believe in traditional, head-to-head polling.

— Brad Parscale

Of course, it is always nice to poll well, but if you don't get representatives elected, then what is the point?

— Marta Andreasen

Typically in science, individual scientists make up their minds about scientific fact or theory one at a time. We don't take votes. We just…

— Alan Stern

“The so-called science of poll-taking is not a science at all but mere necromancy. People are unpredictable by nature, and although you can take…

— E.B. White

Polling only works in a country without a depressed, frightened populace. Where the public trusts authorities enough to tell them the truth without fear…

— Rick Perlstein

If you do have to look at polls, you should do it no more than once every few days, to get a general sense…

— David Brooks