Psephology
Recently, the Supreme Court stayed criminal proceedings initiated against a psephologist for a social media post concerning an erroneous analysis of the 2024 Maharashtra Assembly election.
- Psephology is a branch of political science that deals with the scientific analysis of elections or polls.
- This field is dedicated to offering a meticulous quantitative analysis of elections.
- The toolbox of psephology encompasses a variety of instruments employed for the statistical examination of election data.
- These invaluable tools include voting data, opinion polls, campaign insights, and related datasets.
- Psephologists study the patterns of elections, using past voting figures and their percentage, public opinion ....
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