Admiral Rockwell Tory
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I gave you the link to their methodology. Now it’s up to you to learn rather than slobber from ignorance as you were doing.So? It’s not like there’s a demographic excluded from participating because they don’t answer their phones. Gallup’s reliability remains intact.”shut for brains!”Hey shut for brains! Where did I say anything remotely similar to what you just claimed. The fact that they use any phone calls makes the numbers suspect because usually only certain groups still have land lines and many people don't answer cell phones unless they know the caller.
I call people on a daily basis as part of my job. I have a good feel for the current use of telephones in this country and there is no mathematical formula that will accurately compensate for these trends. I used to teach math also.
They are selling snake oil.
LOL
You must have been one shutty teacher.
There is no better method to contact potential respondents than by phone. The vast majority of Americans own a phone.
True, the have phones, which they don' answer. I make about 200 calls a day and get voicemail about 80% of the time and no answer another 10%.
So tell us genius, do you know where the information comes from?
They choose the numbers to make the results work out the way they want.
Yes, you are such a dipshit you don;t realize that there is absolutely no reason to have a 30% landline and 70% cellphone line ratio unless they have discovered that totally arbitrary (look up that word) ratio usually gives them the required results. I can tell you with assurance, that nowhere near 40% of people with landlines even answer their phones without screening calls and even less who have cell phones will answer their phone for an unknown caller. If I don't recognize the number or it comes from someone I don't need to talk to right away, it goes to voicemail. How many Gallup surveys do you think it would take for them to randomly select you and you actually answer the call and provide them with information?
The results are skewed because they have no basis for their numbers. They always oversample Democrats until they get the numbers they want. They also even out the sample by time zone. How does that make sense as the Mountain time zone would carry more weight than the other three simply because they have a much smaller population than the other time zones?
You cannot even start to explain their methodology because you don't understand it. The fact that you claim to understand something that makes no sense by design shows that you truly are a dumbass.