On Mon, 25 Sep 2000 11:12:44 -0400, Bob Wheeler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>Are pollsters having special difficulties this
>time around due to caller ID? I'd think that the
>nonresponse would be hard to quantify.
>
>Is there a web site that spells out the
>methodologies of the various polling groups?
>
>--
>Bob Wheeler --- (Reply to: [EMAIL PROTECTED])
> ECHIP, Inc.
They are also limited by the vast numbers of potential voters who use
simple answering machines to avoid telemarketing. I doubt if many
will return a call just to please a pollster. Personally, I have many
reservations about the sampling procedures in telephone political
polling often dubbed as "scientific." Why not check out the time of
day of the poll, the zip codes of those queried, percentage of
nonresponses, how hangups and not-at-homes, etc. are handled by the
polling organization. If all this information is proprietary or
"secret," it is hard to ascertain validity. Much of what passes for
"scientific" is back of the envelope statistics IMHO. Oh well, it
sells papers and gives talking heads something to mull over.
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