DrZ
12-10-2007, 01:34 PM
Over 80% of people that pollsters call don't pick up the phone:
http://zogby.com/Soundbites/ReadClips.dbm?ID=16193
I never realized polling had become this biased and unreliable! The response rate is far less than 20% when you include the cell phone factor. I for one will never get polled because I don't list my phone number on my voter registration, I don't answer toll-free and unknown callers, and I will likely hang up on any junk caller that does get through. And people take these polls as gospel and let the polls influence them on who to vote for and who has a "realistic" chance of being elected?
I'd like to see the following statement attached to the next major media poll:
"We surveyed a bunch of old farts who had nothing better to do than sit around home and answer our phone calls. Unfortunately, 80% of the people we wanted to survey never answered their phone. Maybe they had a life? Oh, and another 10% of the people we wanted to survey didn't even have regular phones. But here's the scientific result of what the losers we polled had to say [margin of error +=100%]..."
http://zogby.com/Soundbites/ReadClips.dbm?ID=16193
I never realized polling had become this biased and unreliable! The response rate is far less than 20% when you include the cell phone factor. I for one will never get polled because I don't list my phone number on my voter registration, I don't answer toll-free and unknown callers, and I will likely hang up on any junk caller that does get through. And people take these polls as gospel and let the polls influence them on who to vote for and who has a "realistic" chance of being elected?
I'd like to see the following statement attached to the next major media poll:
"We surveyed a bunch of old farts who had nothing better to do than sit around home and answer our phone calls. Unfortunately, 80% of the people we wanted to survey never answered their phone. Maybe they had a life? Oh, and another 10% of the people we wanted to survey didn't even have regular phones. But here's the scientific result of what the losers we polled had to say [margin of error +=100%]..."