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ABC News President Kim Godwin sent the following note to the news division announcing G. Elliott Morris as the new editorial director of data analytics for ABC News, including FiveThirtyEight.

ABC News is hiring The Economist's G. Elliott Morris to be the editorial director of data analytics for the news division, a post that also oversees FiveThirtyEight.

Silver announced he would not be renewing his contract amidst Disney's ongoing mass layoffs

ABC News has hired a replacement for FiveThirtyEight's Nate Silver: Data journalist G. Elliott Morris.

Survey respondents who answered lean Republican more strongly than the general population, so most would not have voted for Biden in the first place.

There are a number of errors that will always be present when surveying Americans, according to the author of a new book on polling.

Our data journalist picks four books to help readers understand political polls | The Economist reads

If ABC and The Washington Post were to be believed in the days before Election Day 2020, then-candidate Joseph R. Biden was about to wipe the floor with President Trump in Wisconsin. The news outlets' Oct. 28 survey, just a week before voting day, showed the Democrat up by a staggering 17 percentage points.

If ABC and The Washington Post were to be believed in the days before Election Day 2020, then-candidate Joseph R. Biden was about to wipe the floor with President Trump in Wisconsin. The news outlets' Oct. 28 survey, just a week before voting day, showed the Democrat up by a staggering 17 percentage points.

In a lively new book G. Elliott Morris, a data journalist at The Economist, argues that critics of opinion surveys overstate their case | Culture