Why are we both-sidesing this and blaming the poll aggregators when they are the ones that successfully rooted out the fake poll data?
I think a big problem is that, as a poll aggregator, the more you pick and choose which polls are allowed to be aggregated, the more risk there is that you are inserting bias into the result through selective exclusion. Erring on the side of broadly accepting poll data means less room for bias. But they do talk about the need to raise their standards due to the increasing ease of producing fake data in this podcast with FiftyPlusOne: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Neuot3aMkrY
I think a big problem is that, as a poll aggregator, the more you pick and choose which polls are allowed to be aggregated, the more risk there is that you are inserting bias into the result through selective exclusion. Erring on the side of broadly accepting poll data means less room for bias. But they do talk about the need to raise their standards due to the increasing ease of producing fake data in this podcast with FiftyPlusOne: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Neuot3aMkrY