I recently read in methodology of one poll that when they make landline calls, they "ask to speak to the youngest male or female"...Why?
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Yes, because young people answer the phone less. Pollsters still weight to match the demographics of the whole population.
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But you need a reasonably sized raw response from each demographic in order for the weighting to be statistically useful.
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True. And they don't always weight for what I thought they did--such as political registration. So they may literally have 75% one party
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There's good reason for that too -- party ID is very fluid. Age/sex/race is not.
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Yes but don't you think if you're asking about popularity of a Democrat candidate, for example, if u ask 95% Dems you will get different
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I think our system has become trained to recognize only the people with cell phones. I've told these people over and over he has no cell.
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Another example. Dad doesn't have a cell phone, only landline. They call my sister cell 'Emergency Contact' instead of his landline.
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Actually, I think it's the exact reason they do not understand Trump voter too well.
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My Dad still has a landline and no cell phone. I don't have a cell phone either, I would imagine many in rural areas are off the grid.
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