Can 2 Million People Be Wrong?The polling error that destroyed a magazine's reputation

From the show

The Logic Glitch

In 1936, the Literary Digest conducted the largest poll in history, collecting 2.4 million responses to predict the US election. They were mathematically certain of their result, yet they failed spectacularly. This episode unpacks "Selection Bias," revealing how the magazine inadvertently surveyed only the wealthy during the Great Depression. It illustrates why having massive amounts of data is useless if the source is flawed.