Monday, November 01, 2004

Polls, Polls, Everywhere

Everywhere you look, a new poll.

I'm tired of polls. They are no longer quite as accurate as before. Here's why -

Polsters admit it takes them 10 phone calls to get 1 respondent. No one wants to take that much time on the phone.

Most poeple 18-30 have cell phones, not landlines at home, and therefore are not reachable, due to federal law prohibiting pollsters calling cell phones.

So, despite all the math, the heavy statistics, and the charts (I've done them all in grad school), most of our polls oversample the elderly, the lonely, and the bored.

Watch out for tomorrow's election to not be quite as close as they say it will - that's all I am saying.

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