Posted on 10/22/2016 5:12:10 AM PDT by tellw
With all of the polling data coming out, there must quite a lot of people and companies involved in polling. But it still seems like a very opaque industry to have so much influience on the daily conversation. I have not been able to find on youtube a good video of a Presidential poll being taken from start to finish. Can we see one? How many calls does it take? How are they getting their phone numbers? How do they know when to stop calling? Who are the people doing the actual calling and can we sure they have no political biases?
The majority still are. However, these are the the (relatively) cheap ones. IBD, for example, polls 65% cell phones and this becomes expensive. LA Times provides subjects in their group with electronic devices, and this is expensive, too.
What the majority of published polls are calling is individuals with landlines, no caller ID and time to spend talking to a 20-year old co-ed interviewer. And I do believe that Clinton polls ahead of Trump with that group! What I do not believe is that this group represents the population going to the polls and actually voting.
I’m not sure how that happened
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That damn ‘send’ button. Put it in time out for a spell.
At 48 years old I have never been contacted by a polling company.
Too much coffee :-)
I have never been contacted by a pollster. EVER! I worked for State Gov. I have been summoned for Jury Duty every three years like clockwork. Valid DL(only ticket back in the 70’s). Homeowner. Kids went to public schools. Phone listed. What are the odds I haven’t been called in 40 years?
You can do anything with numbers. Manipulation is easy. Some of these recent polls have numerous graphs with age(s), race, sex, etc... One polls crosstabs were 64 pages on a PDF. Had ti really study to find the variables listed. Who is to say these are real results or made up numbers.
In some I’m sure they do not even call anyone. Instead they just make up numbers out of whole cloth. But I’m trying to figure out, is what a video of a one-sided poll taking might show. Unless they announce that the conversation might be recorded and for possible distribution, in most instances this is illegal.
I’ve been called; I just hang up. If you participate, you should expect a lot more calls.
I’ve always wondered, do they keep information on how people responded? If so, it would be easy to go back and poll, for example, republicans voting for clinton, when the pollsters wanted to skew the results.
A good poll is supposed to be random but...?
Too much coffee :-)
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LOL.......
I have never received a single political poll call on my phone in 11 years living here, but I live in a conservative area. I believe the polling companies know where to call to get the results they want the same as the analysts know the counties to watch to predict an election.
Not that I have seen and usually each cycle we get a couple of polling calls, my inlaws get one and my mom (RIP) got a dozen. Nothing this time for any of us, not even ‘missed calls’ on my mom’s phone.
Or you could tell them you are a black, unemployed, High School, democrat who is pro life, pro gun and hates Hillary.
we have physical viewable evidence of the rally crowds for Trump and Clinton. we have zero evidence of the results of these polls. its a case of believe us or believe your own lying eyes.
*High School drop out
And who inherited Miss Cleo’s crystal ball?
Our house phone rings off the hook during election season. Years ago, when I was young and stupid, I answered all the poll calls....gave honest answers. Now as I am older, and see how rigged everything is, I dont even bother to pick up the phone. WHY would you want to give the “enemy” any info? IMO answering these poll questions only alerts the liberals how many dead people they have to drag to the polls to vote to win! Call me cynical, but I truly believe by telling pollsters who you are voting for, it only helps them with voter fraud.
Sorry, Flabby.
Of course polls are by phone. But there is no video of pollsters actually being observed phoning and surveying.
Pollsters rarely tell us what the response rate was.
How could anyone be sure that the video tape was even real? That they are actually talking to random people. Would anyone even watch for very long? I for one would be very skeptical if there was one because their purpose for even producing one would bring up the question why? Why would anyone thing a video of this was important? Why would they think anyone is even interested? What is their motivation for this? Is there an agenda being produced for consumption that has nothing to do with reality, and everything to do with creating a narrative? Well you get my drift.
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