WNYC’s “On The Media” has a great series called the “Breaking News Consumer’s Handbook,” and as part of our ongoing partnership with them, we put together a handy list of rules for interpreting election polls.

But I also wanted to add a few notes on each rule. Here we go:

Here are all the rules in a nice list:

We’re collaborating with “On The Media” throughout the 2016 election to track how polling and media narratives intersect. Read more about our efforts here, and find the full archive of segments here.

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