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You must be getting calls from much brighter pollsters than I am. My callers have rigid standards of response and often I can't answer y/n or rate 1/10. There's no room for subtlety and thus I distrust the outcomes.
The "polls" that bother me most are the younger students drug use percentages. I try to imagine asking a 15 year old "have you used cocaine in the last 7 days?" or similar and actually get the response "sure, don't tell my mom". So IMHO they make most of this crap up.
Of course, I could be wrong.
The "polls" that bother me most are the younger students drug use percentages. I try to imagine asking a 15 year old "have you used cocaine in the last 7 days?" or similar and actually get the response "sure, don't tell my mom". So IMHO they make most of this crap up.
Of course, I could be wrong.
Which is why they interview a large enough number of people to get a statistically accurate sample rather than just rely on a few people who may be biased.
And if a pollster decides that your interview was somehow biased they'll toss it out and replace it with an non-biased interview.
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