70% of People Won’t Cooperate With Contact Tracers in New Jersey
4 min readDec 3, 2020
What fools we mortals be.
Part of the problem with polling in the modern era, what field statisticians of every stripe who have surveyed human beings have long known, is that people are, by nature, strangely fickle.
Pollsters and statisticians, the honest ones anyway, pointed out some time ago that phrasing a question…