To: Steely Tom; Destroyer Sailor; LS
LS just posted that some pollsters are finding they need to phone 60,000 people in order to get a sample size of 300.
61 posted on
10/24/2018 9:23:39 AM PDT by
AFPhys
((Liberalism is what Smart looks like to Stupid people - ® - Mia of KC. Rush - 1:50-8/21/15))
To: AFPhys
Spoke to a pro marketer yesterday working on a major campaign for a state’s PR: 60k is the NORM to get 300 respondents. I bet half these people do 90k.
62 posted on
10/24/2018 9:24:30 AM PDT by
LS
("Castles made of sand, fall in the sea . . . eventually" (Hendrix))
To: AFPhys
LS just posted that some pollsters are finding they need to phone 60,000 people in order to get a sample size of 300. Yeah, 300 people who are willing to talk to a pollster. Not representative of the population at large.
63 posted on
10/24/2018 10:01:41 AM PDT by
Steely Tom
([Seth Rich] == [the Democrat's John Dean])
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