Human poll takers vs. Robo poll takers

[Ravi]

I was wondering about this the other night, if robo-polls were legit.

Surveys of the Buckeye State have been all over the board in recent weeks as the election draws near. While most show President Obama with the lead, the size of it depends on whether the pollster was using human beings or robots to do the interviewing.
TPM Slideshow: PollTracker’s Top Races Of The 2012 Election

TPM compared the two methods and found that polls conducted by a live interviewer, the method widely considered to be the gold standard, have shown the President with larger leads than polls conducted by automated calls, which are prohibited from contacting people through cell phones. Since early September, live polls have shown Obama with an average lead of 4.5 percentage points in Ohio while his average lead in robo-polls has been less than 2.

Obama Shows Bigger Leads In Ohio With Live Polling | TPM2012

Aside from the fact that this is an interesting view into polling, the fact that robots tend to cut Mitten some slack is kind of ironic, what with Mitten's rep of being robotic.

 

[Remodeling Maidiac]

Dumb, thread is dumb.

Ohhhhh, It's a ravi thread.....

So who's hair is more presidential today ravi?

 

[Cheddarmelon]

And per usual, anything that would show any data or evidence... must summarily be avoided like a rabid chipmunk by the righties.

 

[Remodeling Maidiac]

And per usual, anything that would show any data or evidence... must summarily be avoided like a rabid chipmunk by the righties.

Its avoided because of the author. You're new here so of course you have no idea.

 

[Cheddarmelon]

ah. So then, we can disregard anything forwarded by fox news... because we disdain the source.

 

[Quantum Windbag]

I was wondering about this the other night, if robo-polls were legit.

Surveys of the Buckeye State have been all over the board in recent weeks as the election draws near. While most show President Obama with the lead, the size of it depends on whether the pollster was using human beings or robots to do the interviewing.
TPM Slideshow: PollTracker’s Top Races Of The 2012 Election

TPM compared the two methods and found that polls conducted by a live interviewer, the method widely considered to be the gold standard, have shown the President with larger leads than polls conducted by automated calls, which are prohibited from contacting people through cell phones. Since early September, live polls have shown Obama with an average lead of 4.5 percentage points in Ohio while his average lead in robo-polls has been less than 2.

Obama Shows Bigger Leads In Ohio With Live Polling | TPM2012

Aside from the fact that this is an interesting view into polling, the fact that robots tend to cut Mitten some slack is kind of ironic, what with Mitten's rep of being robotic.

Or, just a thought, people are more likely to lie to humans than robots.

 

[Cheddarmelon]

I was wondering about this the other night, if robo-polls were legit.

Surveys of the Buckeye State have been all over the board in recent weeks as the election draws near. While most show President Obama with the lead, the size of it depends on whether the pollster was using human beings or robots to do the interviewing.
TPM Slideshow: PollTracker’s Top Races Of The 2012 Election

TPM compared the two methods and found that polls conducted by a live interviewer, the method widely considered to be the gold standard, have shown the President with larger leads than polls conducted by automated calls, which are prohibited from contacting people through cell phones. Since early September, live polls have shown Obama with an average lead of 4.5 percentage points in Ohio while his average lead in robo-polls has been less than 2.

Obama Shows Bigger Leads In Ohio With Live Polling | TPM2012

Aside from the fact that this is an interesting view into polling, the fact that robots tend to cut Mitten some slack is kind of ironic, what with Mitten's rep of being robotic.

Or, just a thought, people are more likely to lie to humans than robots.

why?

 

[Remodeling Maidiac]

ah. So then, we can disregard anything forwarded by fox news... because we disdain the source.

As i stated its a pointless topic. Has nothing to do with the source.

Much like her who has better hair threads

 

[Cheddarmelon]

ah. So then, we can disregard anything forwarded by fox news... because we disdain the source.

As i stated its a pointless topic. Has nothing to do with the source.

So please let me know an author who is acceptable to you, who could repost the same article, that you would pay any attention to.

 

[Remodeling Maidiac]

Simple minded pointless nonsense that no one cares about

 

[Cheddarmelon]

Simple minded pointless nonsense that no one cares about

But you indicated it was the author that was the problem, not the content. Has that changed for you?

 

[Remodeling Maidiac]

Simple minded pointless nonsense that no one cares about

But you indicated it was the author that was the problem, not the content. Has that changed for you?

Obviously not.

Goodnight troll

 

[Cheddarmelon]

Simple minded pointless nonsense that no one cares about

But you indicated it was the author that was the problem, not the content. Has that changed for you?

Obviously not.

Goodnight troll

Goodnight sir. I do hope you get the sleep you require to be both focused and cognizant.

 

[Quantum Windbag]

I was wondering about this the other night, if robo-polls were legit.

Obama Shows Bigger Leads In Ohio With Live Polling | TPM2012

Aside from the fact that this is an interesting view into polling, the fact that robots tend to cut Mitten some slack is kind of ironic, what with Mitten's rep of being robotic.

Or, just a thought, people are more likely to lie to humans than robots.

why?

Why what?

 

[Ravi]

I was wondering about this the other night, if robo-polls were legit.

Surveys of the Buckeye State have been all over the board in recent weeks as the election draws near. While most show President Obama with the lead, the size of it depends on whether the pollster was using human beings or robots to do the interviewing.
TPM Slideshow: PollTracker’s Top Races Of The 2012 Election

TPM compared the two methods and found that polls conducted by a live interviewer, the method widely considered to be the gold standard, have shown the President with larger leads than polls conducted by automated calls, which are prohibited from contacting people through cell phones. Since early September, live polls have shown Obama with an average lead of 4.5 percentage points in Ohio while his average lead in robo-polls has been less than 2.

Obama Shows Bigger Leads In Ohio With Live Polling | TPM2012

Aside from the fact that this is an interesting view into polling, the fact that robots tend to cut Mitten some slack is kind of ironic, what with Mitten's rep of being robotic.

Or, just a thought, people are more likely to lie to humans than robots.

I'd say it is the other way around.

But that isn't actually what is going on. Robo-polls can't call cell phones but human pollers can. So polls in Mitts favor very well be skewed to older, white Republicans that only have land lines.

 

[Cheddarmelon]

Or, just a thought, people are more likely to lie to humans than robots.

why?

Why what?

Why would people be more inclined to lie to robots than people.

 

[NoNukes]

why?

Why what?

Why would people be more inclined to lie to robots than people.

Lying to a machine would be easier to a person than lying to another human. was that so difficult?

 

[Cheddarmelon]

Why what?

Why would people be more inclined to lie to robots than people.

Lying to a machine would be easier to a person than lying to another human. was that so difficult?

What you are failling to indicate, is why they would bother to lie in the first place.

 

[spectrumc01]

you are all missing the point about polls. Polls are alot like religion, you either believe them or you don't. Each side has their own views and pollsters and they accuse each other of skewing the facts and definitions. FOX reports that 8 out of 10 Republicans plan on voting for Romney, as opposed to CNN reporting 9 out of 10 Democrats voting for Obama. FOX only likes the Rassmussen but everyone else likes the Gallup.

It's just like religion.

 

[del]

Simple minded pointless nonsense that no one cares about

it's good of you to identify your posts so clearly