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Pollsters Scramble as Fewer People Take Their Phone Calls
MSN/WSJ ^

Posted on 10/27/2016 2:45:54 PM PDT by TigerClaws

Each day, millions of calls are placed to phone numbers that have been disconnected or are no longer in service. Everyone misdials—men and women, rich and poor, blacks and whites.

Scott Richards wants to replace the familiar “Your call cannot be completed as dialed” message with a different one: “Would you like to take a survey?”

His is among a spate of ideas bubbling up for new ways to sample public opinion. The alternatives are coming because the traditional method—randomly calling phone numbers again and again until someone answers—has grown far more labor intensive and costly in recent years.

(Excerpt) Read more at msn.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: 2016polls; polls
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To: ExGeeEye

Energy:
17. Simulated disorder postulates perfect discipline, simulated fear postulates courage; simulated weakness postulates strength.

18. Hiding order beneath the cloak of disorder is simply a question of subdivision; concealing courage under a show of timidity presupposes a fund of latent energy; masking strength with weakness is to be effected by tactical dispositions.


61 posted on 10/27/2016 3:36:56 PM PDT by numberonepal (First they came for Sarah, then they came for Herman, and now they've come for Trump.)
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To: huckfillary

One possible question: “.45ACP or 9mm”?


62 posted on 10/27/2016 3:41:00 PM PDT by 353FMG (TRUMP IS ALL THAT MATTERS)
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To: TigerClaws

Sick and tired of the polls.


63 posted on 10/27/2016 3:43:28 PM PDT by needmorePaine
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To: TigerClaws

We have NoMoreRobo Calls blocking calls on our landlines. We see the number on our phones, tv or computer, and if we don’t know the caller. We don’t answer.

Our Android phones have a call blocker app that seems to work in the back ground.

Sometimes cloned calls which appear to be local calls sneak through. I then use the Comcast call forwarding system to forward any calls from those numbers to the local DA’s office # to report criminal phone scams. They never call back after that phone visit.


64 posted on 10/27/2016 3:45:04 PM PDT by Grampa Dave (We are not electing a saint. We are electing an ass kicker! Vote for Trump! Defeat Illiarily!)
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To: TigerClaws

IT is called a combination of Caller ID, and Spammers. Most people don’t answer anymore for numbers they don’t know.


65 posted on 10/27/2016 3:45:06 PM PDT by Revel
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To: relictele

Caller ID can be manipulated by the caller

In phone systems the caller ID and phone number is set by the tech or administrator of the system

Just because it says ABC123 INC from 555-555-5555 does not mean it is from them.....


66 posted on 10/27/2016 3:46:05 PM PDT by arl295
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To: smileyface

You are the second freeper, who has had a phone call from a possible poll taker and got back to me!


67 posted on 10/27/2016 3:48:59 PM PDT by Grampa Dave (We are not electing a saint. We are electing an ass kicker! Vote for Trump! Defeat Illiarily!)
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To: LeoWindhorse

When I get an automated survey, I respond that I’m a young, female Democrat who is going to vote for Trump.

Once I managed to indicate on the poll that I was a black female lesbian.


68 posted on 10/27/2016 3:49:18 PM PDT by PapaBear3625 (Big government is attractive to those who think that THEY will be in control of it.)
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To: CptnObvious

>>We LOVE NomoRobo!<<

It has been really good for the Cowboys.

It is a test of Jerry Jones. If he is a fool he will put him back on as QB despite the 5-1 start by Dak.

And the idiots here in Dallas will STILL go to the games!


69 posted on 10/27/2016 3:56:50 PM PDT by freedumb2003 (Never Trump=Always hiLIARy)
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To: TigerClaws
I have a landline but no phone attached to it. Not sure when was the last I checked voicemail. Maybe 5 years ago. I don't even remember my landline phone number. 😂😂😂
70 posted on 10/27/2016 4:02:40 PM PDT by Tamatoa (Fight for our America, Fight for our Country I fought to defend!!!)
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To: TigerClaws
We get some many polling calls that it borders on harassment. Easily 4 or 5 per day. We never participate.

The worst are the robo-callers, you can't even tell them to go away, and they keep calling back.

I have spoken to a few live polling people, but interestingly they want me to answer questions but they won't answer any about who paid for the poll, or who they really are.

Why would anybody answer any questions for somebody who refuses to give their name, their organization's name, or their address?

71 posted on 10/27/2016 4:04:25 PM PDT by freeandfreezing
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To: ExGeeEye
Let the enemy think they don’t have to work so hard to defeat you. If Sun Tzu didn’t write something like that, he should have.

Yes he did.

"Pretend inferiority and encourage his arrogance." Sun Tzu

72 posted on 10/27/2016 4:12:54 PM PDT by johnny reb
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To: Grampa Dave

I got a call Monday from Gallup

First Question How old are you?

Answer 74

Reply........ Sorry for the inconvenience, you are too old

Truth


73 posted on 10/27/2016 4:30:54 PM PDT by Thibodeaux (Exile Barack, Exile the Wookie, Exile Malia, Exile Shasha)
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To: TigerClaws

Oh, now, suddenly no one is answering their calls. Such BS


74 posted on 10/27/2016 4:31:41 PM PDT by riri (Obama's Amerika--Not a fun place.)
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To: freeandfreezing

We get them all the time. My husband has answered and explained that he has no opinions, he gave them up when he got married!


75 posted on 10/27/2016 4:37:03 PM PDT by All Blue State
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To: Chauncey Gardiner

lol, I’m just the opposite. I relish some poor smuck calling me out of the blue so that I can rake em over the coals. It’s a lot of fun. Try it, you’ll like it.


76 posted on 10/27/2016 4:46:30 PM PDT by Cen-Tejas (it's the debt bomb stupid)
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To: Thibodeaux

I got a call Monday from Gallup

First Question How old are you?

Answer 74

Reply........ Sorry for the inconvenience, you are too old

Truth

Geez, you are just a youngster!:)

Years, ago I took an early retirement program and didn’t work for a year on advice from our CPA.

It was amazing the calls from pollsters I got from 1 pm to about 4 pm, M-F. Later, I learned that was how they got the unemployed/on welfare liberals, waking up for the day.

To shorten the process, I would tell them, that I was a conservative republican, Christian, Veteran and I voted republican. Usually they would hang up, and some would thank me and then hang up.

Gallup and Pew got the message and stopped calling.


77 posted on 10/27/2016 4:48:50 PM PDT by Grampa Dave (We are not electing a saint. We are electing an ass kicker! Vote for Trump! Defeat Illiarily!)
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To: Grampa Dave

I was polled earlier tonight on the house landline by Quinnepac. So yes it does happen. (I’m in PA.)

Pretty basic stuff, no questions about policy or how well anybody is doing, just who are you going to vote for, what’s your party, do you follow politics, do you vote, will you vote, and a couple of demographic questions.

They also asked if I had a cell phone, and how often did I use it. That might be a little groundwork for the next election.


78 posted on 10/27/2016 4:54:18 PM PDT by jiggyboy (Ten percent of poll respondents are either lying or insane)
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To: Grampa Dave

No polling calls that I know of.
But a lot—2 or 3 each day-— of calls that begin “Congratulations! You have been selected...” and I hang up. Now I wonder if these are pollsters.


79 posted on 10/27/2016 5:04:28 PM PDT by mumblypeg (We've had a p***y in the White House for 8 years. Make America Macho Again.)
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To: TigerClaws

After getting up to 6 poll calls a day, I started screening. Hanging up when they do catch me.

Every once in awhile I’ll go ahead and play their silly little game.


80 posted on 10/27/2016 5:10:12 PM PDT by Marie (The vulgarians are at the gate! MAGA!)
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