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Assessing the value of polls

Much ado about the skewing in polls however so many more people these days don't or can't participate which means samplings are often too small to matter.

Some say that social media outreach is a much better barometer of conditions today
 
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Assessing the value of polls

Much ado about the skewing in polls however so many more people these days don't or can't participate which means samplings are often too small to matter.

Some say that social media outreach is a much better barometer of conditions today
I am not sure about the relevance to this since most major pollsters include cell phones in their polling now.
 

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no, most do not
Gallup and Pew does, Rasmussen doesnt but does survey online instead, cant be bothered to check with others. They have all been adjusting their polling methods to account for the discrepancy of cell phone usage... they got a lot of flak in the 2008 election because of it.
 

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Usually and from when I helped to take polls, we never asked for someones name, or phone number. Not certain why a polling firm would ask for phone numbers, let alone names of the people they're polling. Sex and age of the those being polled does make sense. But nothing else does.