Richard Colwell: Wisdom of the crowd is revealing

Asking voters to guess the final result could have helped predict Brexit

While much of the polling during the Brexit campaign did correctly suggest the result was too close to call, most of the final polls did predict a small remain win, and many pollsters have been left with egg on their faces, again.

In the run-up to this referendum, we identified two effects seen in Irish referendum polling that could affect the Brexit polls. The first being the status quo effect and the second ...