Today I got a call about who I support.
I ENTHUASTICALLY said Biden of course. Trolling cold call assholes is fun.
Define accurate? Polls can be manipulated to get the result one wants by the way you phrase the questions and what percent of those polled identify as Republican, Democrat or Independent. This makes a poll accurate but only representative of those polled not the nation as so many try and make polls out to be. I know you already know this but I had some time to kill.
Do Polls Still Work If People Donāt Answer Their Phones?
āThe juryās outā on whether historically low response rates could make surveys less accurate.
Pollsters face a growing obstacle in gathering Americansā opinions: getting people to answer their calls. The proportion of people called who answer the survey ā in pollster jargon, the āresponse rateā ā has dropped dramatically over the last few decades as Americans have changed how they interact with the world.
Even worse for pollsters, landline telephones, which are quicker and cheaper to call, have been steadily disappearing over the last 20 years. Almost half of the American population is now solely reliant on mobile phones.
ll of these factors have resulted in less efficient polling than in the past.
A 2012 report from Pew Research, one of the nationās most reputable pollsters, showed a 9 percent response rate, compared to nearly 40 percent in the late 1990s.
The vast majority of pollsters donāt even report their response rates.
"The jury's out" on whether historically low response rates could make surveys less accurate.
www.huffpost.com
Weāre making this change to ensure our survey samples properly represent the now roughly half (47%) of U.S. adults whose only phone is a cellphone.
Nine-in-ten Americans have a cellphone, and the share of adults who are cellphone-only has steadily increased since 2004, the year the government began tracking the size of this group. To keep pace with the publicās changing habits and lifestyle, we have increased the percentage of respondents interviewed by cellphone nearly every year since 2009.
Weāre making this change to ensure our survey samples properly represent the now roughly half (47%) of U.S. adults who only have a cellphone.
www.pewresearch.org
SO MY opinion is this:
My personal response is
a) 100% of my phone activity is on my cell phone.
b) I don't answer ANY call from a number or party I don't recognize.
And I'm not alone!
90% of Customers Screen Phone Calls From Unknown Numbers
ZipWhip conducted a test surveying 520 consumers on their communication preferences with brands,
and found that a staggering 87% of participant reported rejecting or ignoring phone calls recently from an unknown number.
Is cold calling dead? Recent research points to yes. A new study by ZipWhip shows that over 90% of customers ignore phone calls. So, what's next?
www.impactbnd.com