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A number of people in the region, familiar with CDS’ work, have asked “what is the effect of Cambridge Analytica on your work?” We would like to make some distinctions we feel are important: Caribbean Development Strategies collects primary data (that means we conduct surveys to ask people directly about their opinions). We do not…
Some in Jamaica labelled the October poll conducted by CDS in the St Mary South Eastern constituency ahead of a hotly contested by-election as a “fake poll”. But the official results showed the forecast was within a percentage point of the final result. Reporting after the October 30 election, the Jamaica Observer remarked, “The result…