Posted on 10/25/2016 8:50:14 AM PDT by jmaroneps37
...Americans don’t answer surveys so where does poll data come from?....
The DNC
Podesta.
Pray America wakes
Ask a proctologist with a flashlight to check with the pollsters.
I received an automated poll call last night. When I answered “press 1 for Trump”, I pressed 1, and the call hang up. Probably makes it easier to get the results they want.
I worked for DnB before they quit investigating businesses and started using their enormous data base to “predict” credit worthiness. Over time, the data became less and less accurate. Garbage in . . .
Regardless of how real a call sounds, if I detect the least delay in in I say “f@ck you and your computer.”
For real people, I tolerate ONE question and ONE question only and I tell them they’d better make it count because if they want my opinion, one question is all that’s needed. The rest of this 3-7 minute hoop jumping questions is nothing but exploitation, very likely with push-poll implications designed to fake real opinion.
ONE QUESTION!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Thanks for that anecdote.
The polls don’t worry me. Vote fraud does.
Memes:
Voodoo polling
Polling malpractice
Even tho I’m on the ‘don’t call list’, the phone is ringing constantly. I just don’t answer anymore unless a voice comes on that I recognize — or look at the incoming number.
Sometimes I call a number back just to hear who answers, but most of the time, no one is there.
Spam calls have made a mess of our phone system and this affects honest poll callers.(are there honest phone callers?)
good post
We Freepers complain about the inaccuracy of the polls but we are some of the biggest offenders of ignoring pollsters. Me included.
For presidential elections, I tell people “If you don’t vote, you can’t complain”. It kind of applies to the polls too.
Why even bother to talk to real people? Call 10 phones and then write down the info you want.
In 2 weeks we can set off the political equivalent of a neutron bomb on D.C.’s ruling elites.
Spam calls have made a mess of our phone system and this affects honest poll callers.(are there honest phone callers?)
Hadn’t thought of that, but the shear volume of junk calls has likely affected the rate at which people will even pickup on a phone call they don’t recognize. That, and of course caller-ID.
Americans don’t answer surveys so where does poll data come from?............From their rear ends.................
I am polled repeatedly every election cycle. I don’t know anybody else who has ever been polled. They poll the same people (who answer the phone) over and over again.
“He continued saying he concluded that “most of these biases can be corrected through demographic weighting of the sort that is nearly universally used by pollsters.””
Nonsense. Demographic weighting assumes you already know how every demographic is going to vote, and if that is true, there would be no need for polls in the first place. It’s just a method to fudge bad results to make them less obviously bad. It may be harmless in very small doses, but if the current method makes it a mandatory part of the process, then the current method is fundamentally flawed.
I do not trust polls.
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