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Originally Posted by Cinisajoy
Respected in what way?
The fact is the people in the Gallup polls all signed up for it.
Pew apparently just cold calls. How is that better?
By the way: the questions are loaded on most of their polls. They have caught me a time or two.
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Cold call Polls are a a more random sample (
if the numbers called are reasonably random . Reasonable, because they do need to respect the National Do Not Call list)
I have never been
polled where there was not a detectable
slant. I usually can figure it from the answer choices within 4 or 5 questions
When you have a pool of prequalified (those who signed up), the sample is already at least 1 layer filtered: 'People who sign up for things'