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Current Events => Archives => Politics => Election 2012 => Topic started by: Mr Mannn on September 30, 2012, 09:18:18 PM
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http://pjmedia.com/tatler/2012/09/30/we-are-the-91-only-9-of-americans-cooperate-with-pollsters/
WE ARE THE 91%: Only 9% of Americans Cooperate with Pollsters
One of the most amazing — and significant — statistics of this election season has gone almost completely unnoticed:
Only 9% of sampled households gave an answer to pollsters in 2012:
It has become increasingly difficult to contact potential respondents and to persuade them to participate. The percentage of households in a sample that are successfully interviewed – the response rate – has fallen dramatically. At Pew Research, the response rate of a typical telephone survey was 36% in 1997 and is just 9% today.
The general decline in response rates is evident across nearly all types of surveys, in the United States and abroad. At the same time, greater effort and expense are required to achieve even the diminished response rates of today. These challenges have led many to question whether surveys are still providing accurate and unbiased information.
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Go figure. :whatever:
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When my cell phone rings, I don't answer if I don't recognize the number. I figure if it's something really important they'll leave a message.
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Don't need polls to get biased information , that's the mainscream medias job. :whatever:
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My SIL got a call tonight. She made up all kinds of bs. I just hang up on them.
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My SIL got a call tonight. She made up all kinds of bs. I just hang up on them.
I've only been called by pollsters twice in my life. First one was a robo-pollster (you know, the press [1] for Yes, or [2] for No kind); except if you pushed the button for the candy-date OTHER than the one who was commissioning the poll, it would hang up on you. The second time was a live pollster who did the same thing; answer the question other than the with the answer they wanted, and the pollster killed the circuit.
Yeah; you couldn't possibly convince me that polls are worth a beer-fart in a F5 whirl wind.
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I've only been called by pollsters twice in my life. First one was a robo-pollster (you know, the press [1] for Yes, or [2] for No kind); except if you pushed the button for the candy-date OTHER than the one who was commissioning the poll, it would hang up on you. The second time was a live pollster who did the same thing; answer the question other than the with the answer they wanted, and the pollster killed the circuit.
Yeah; you couldn't possibly convince me that polls are worth a beer-fart in a F5 whirl wind.
Her's was a robo-pollster. During the 2008 election, I got a real live wire Obama pollster. Stayed on the phone about 10 min with this dipshit. He did not like my answers and tried to convince me I was wrong. He wanted me to hang up but I would not cause I wanted my vote to count. Since then, anyone that is a pollster, a telemarketer, selling stuff or a charitable organization, I hang up immediately.
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"No - no no, I could NEVER vote for a democrat. I want to go to Heaven one day"
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My SIL got a call tonight. She made up all kinds of bs. I just hang up on them.
Me too. My wife, far more Liberal than I but no fan of Obama, can't bring herself to just hang up on people and occasionally gets sucked into responding to one (Not so far this election, though). I have no interest in wasting 20 minutes of my time being an unpaid member of a distributed focus group.
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I've only been called by pollsters twice in my life. First one was a robo-pollster (you know, the press [1] for Yes, or [2] for No kind); except if you pushed the button for the candy-date OTHER than the one who was commissioning the poll, it would hang up on you. The second time was a live pollster who did the same thing; answer the question other than the with the answer they wanted, and the pollster killed the circuit.
Yeah; you couldn't possibly convince me that polls are worth a beer-fart in a F5 whirl wind.
Why in the world would a candy-date spend the money then, just to be told what he wanted to hear? Whatever is the point?
I wonder how many people are responding "obama", just so they don't have to listen to the "edge" in the pollster's voice? Or worse, get roped into an argument with a stranger? Doesn't Rush call this the Bradley Effect?
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Why in the world would a candy-date spend the money then, just to be told what he wanted to hear? Whatever is the point?
I wonder how many people are responding "obama", just so they don't have to listen to the "edge" in the pollster's voice? Or worse, get roped into an argument with a stranger? Doesn't Rush call this the Bradley Effect?
I would suppose that the Poll I was "participating" in was intended for public consumption, rather than the candy-date's own internal polling.
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The only thing I ever got was an automated call from Arnold Schwarzenegger telling me to not be a girly man and vote republican.