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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Just a question. There's reasoning behind each method they use. This would seem to poll heavier on younger people.
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Replying to @SharylAttkisson @RayGuy3
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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Replying to @SharylAttkisson @RayGuy3
There's good reason for that too -- party ID is very fluid. Age/sex/race is not.
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What's the point of relying on a sample about political matters that is skewed way more to one side or the other than is the population--
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