Opinion | Is It End Of The Road For Exit Polls After Lok Sabha & Haryana Debacle? Why They Often Go Wrong

One of the limitations of exit polls at present is that, in most samples, the women’s representation is small, much lower than 50%. Representational image.

Source : PTI

The exit polls after a disastrous Lok Sabha season have once again gone horribly wrong in the recently concluded Haryana and J&K assembly elections. All the exit polls predicted a Congress victory in Haryana, but the results were exactly the opposite, and the BJP won. In J&K, pollsters were directionally right but most predicted a hung house with the National Conference (NC)-Congress alliance in the lead. Memes on social media trolled pollsters that exit polls should now exit. So