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Pew: Phone polling in crisis again

OC for ME

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The percentage of Americans willing to participate in telephone polls has hit a new low, according to a new report, raising doubts about the continued viability of the phone surveys that have traditionally dominated politics and elections, both in the media and in campaigns.

By 2012, Pew’s response rate stood at just 9 percent, where it held through 2016.

Pew’s data suggest that decline is underway again, with response rates slipping to 7 percent in 2017 and 6 percent in 2018.

The irony is thick. Moving to on-line...now what could go wrong with that?

The American Trends Panel...woo hoo! PEW should transition to conducting consumer research and drop politics all together. They, along with just about every pollster on the planet, missed a huge American Trend last November 2016...and the evidence was there for all to see. Heck, folks were telling the likes of PEW what was about to happen....not scientific enough for them it now appears.
 

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ROFLMAO...and they broadcast to everyone about their polling inadequacies...so much for their validity, reliability, as well as their creds...

Only in this great country...
 
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color of law

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OC - liberals are over represented because most of the polls are done in high density population areas, places the "rats" like to congregate.
I live where the deer like to congregate, lots of deer. Yet, I live close to a city. A place where liberals are under strict control when they escape the city. A rat would not survive very long out here.
 
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