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• n  a sociologist who studies election trends

• Cornell had a distinguished visitor last weekOxford University Don David Butler, who calls himself the world's first psephologist.
• Chung, a trained psephologist, conducts polls for the university's journalism department.
• Nowadays, they are more likely to be on their mobile phones to a new bree d of prophet: the psephologist, who scientifically studies poll data.