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Mundus Vult Decipi, Ergo Decipiatur: Visual Communication of Uncertainty in Election Polls

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 September 2021

Alexander Bauer Open the ORCID record for Alexander Bauer [Opens in a new window] ,
André Klima ,
Jana Gauß ,
Hannah Kümpel ,
Andreas Bender Open the ORCID record for Andreas Bender [Opens in a new window]  and
Helmut Küchenhoff
Alexander Bauer
Affiliation:
Statistical Consulting Unit StaBLab, Department of Statistics, LMU Munich, Germany
André Klima
Affiliation:
Statistical Consulting Unit StaBLab, Department of Statistics, LMU Munich, Germany
Jana Gauß
Affiliation:
Statistical Consulting Unit StaBLab, Department of Statistics, LMU Munich, Germany
Hannah Kümpel
Affiliation:
Statistical Consulting Unit StaBLab, Department of Statistics, LMU Munich, Germany
Andreas Bender
Affiliation:
Statistical Consulting Unit StaBLab, Department of Statistics, LMU Munich, Germany
Helmut Küchenhoff
Affiliation:
Statistical Consulting Unit StaBLab, Department of Statistics, LMU Munich, Germany
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Forecasting the 2021 German Elections
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PS: Political Science & Politics , Volume 55 , Issue 1 , January 2022 , pp. 102 - 108
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© The Author(s), 2021. Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of the American Political Science Association

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