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To: Laissez-faire capitalist

The problem is that ALL the pollsters are having trouble adapting to a world where people don’t automatically answer their phones, and phone technology has changed.

Following their bad performance in the 2014 midterms, Nate Silver wrote that pollsters are going to have to develop new methods.


3 posted on 08/22/2015 12:31:07 PM PDT by MUDDOG
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The problem is that ALL the pollsters are having trouble adapting to a world where people don’t automatically answer their phones, and phone technology has changed. Following their bad performance in the 2014 midterms, Nate Silver wrote that pollsters are going to have to develop new methods.

Personally, I gave up on replying to polls (and various Census Inquiries) decades ago. It is much easier now with answering machines and caller ID though!

69 posted on 08/22/2015 2:08:36 PM PDT by ExSES (the "bottom-line")
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