Poll Average Details- LDS President/Prophet - 1985-11-10 21:00:00

The Poll Average is a weighted and adjusted number.
[Mid Date Column] All times are calculated by the middle date of the poll if it spans multiple days.
A time window of 2 months prior to the most recent poll is used.
[Time Weight Column] Polls are weighted in the amount they contribute to the final results in a linear fashion in this time window - the newest poll has a weight of 1, a poll 30 days prior will have a weight of 0.5 and a poll 60 days out will have a weight of 0. If the same pollster has more than one poll in this time period, only the newest will be used.
[Internal Column] If a poll is marked as being an internal poll for one of the candidates, it's weight will be halved.
[Candidate Columns, Bias] OurCampaigns has calculated partisan bias figures for all Polling Firms based on data from final vote totals in races they have polled. These amounts are subtracted from the poll result - in the case the bias figure is negative it will effectively be added to the poll result and appear as two dashes (minus a negative = plus). [TOTAL Row] The adjusted weights are summed for each poll result and the adjusted poll results for each candidate are multiplied by the poll weight and then summed. Each candidate's poll sum is divided by their weight sum to give the total.

PollMid DateTime WeightInternal Ezra Taft Benson Marion G. Romney Howard W. Hunter Gordon B. Hinckley Thomas Spencer Monson Boyd K. Packer Marvin J. Ashton Lowell Tom Perry David B. Haight James Esdras Faust Neal A. Maxwell Russell M. Nelson Dallin Harris Oaks M. Russell Ballard
Unknown11/2X 1.00000   99.9999 - 0.0593 bias 65.0000 - 0.0593 bias 60.0000 - 0.0593 bias 55.0000 - 0.0593 bias 50.0000 - 0.0593 bias 45.0000 - 0.0593 bias 40.0000 - 0.0593 bias 35.0000 - 0.0593 bias 30.0000 - 0.0593 bias 25.0000 - 0.0593 bias 20.0000 - 0.0593 bias 15.0000 - 0.0593 bias 10.0000 - 0.0593 bias 5.0000 - 0.0593 bias
TOTAL 99.940600 64.940700 59.940700 54.940700 49.940700 44.940700 39.940700 34.940700 29.940700 24.940700 19.940700 14.940700 9.940700 4.940700