Poll: 3 out of 4 Americans prefer paper books

[BearMountainBooks]

Originally Posted by Catlady View Post
I'm finding it really incredible that so many people who don't like the results are having a knee-jerk reaction that the polling methodology is flawed and/or that the pollsters tailored the results to fit someone's agenda.

I tend to not believe any polls because I do take them occasionally and often find they don't have an answer for me: "Do you identify more with Republicans or Democrats?" is a very common poll question. My answer is "neither" and they don't allow that. If you don't answer, MOST polls I've been on terminate the poll right there. They are only interested in counting Dems and Republicans--so everyone else gets a "Thank you for your time."

I can imagine that in an ebook poll some people were discarded: "I don't read." or "I don't know what an ebook is" or "If you're not giving something away, I'm not answering."

I also lie during some polls. My income isn't anyone's business. Neither is my race. And if the poll goes on too long, I just start picking "A" to be annoying. I am not alone in lying for pollsters either. Most of the time they lie about the nature of the polls (sometimes they don't tell you upfront it's a political or product poll.)

While I'm not knocking this particular poll (Because it doesn't matter to me if the results are real or not) I don't have much faith in polls generally.

[Catlady]

Originally Posted by BearMountainBooks

I also lie during some polls. My income isn't anyone's business. Neither is my race. And if the poll goes on too long, I just start picking "A" to be annoying. I am not alone in lying for pollsters either. Most of the time they lie about the nature of the polls (sometimes they don't tell you upfront it's a political or product poll.)

I get called fairly often for political polls. I attempt to answer the preference/opinion/behavior questions truthfully, but I refuse to give any of the standard demographic information. None of their business, and I don't want to be put in a little box.