Do any of you recall the days when maybe we heard about a poll three times a year? The first 10 years of the 21st Century are going to be known as the ” The Decade of Management by Polling.”
This of course is followed up with the standard coffee shop talk where all those ask each other, “but have you ever been polled yourself?”
I am 62 years old, with 40 years of civic involvement, and I have never once been polled about any topic, retail or politics.
So howabout you all? This is the Poll. Have you ever been polled about anything? Yes or No?
I want to see if the standard deviation applies to a generic poll with no subject. Why because I am paranoid. (tsk) I swear the pollsters have subscriptions lists. Meaning if you are an avid reader, you never get polled. Ok, rib if you like, but prove me wrong.
And then I intend to follow up with a couple of polls scripted just for the readers of this BLOG.
The first one will follow this posting.
Haven’t had a land line for years – and the real polls are still totally dependent upon land-line polling.
“Internet polls” don’t count.
generally you have to be in the country …….. from 2001 to 2007 i wasn’t here that often.
polls seem to mena little anyway ………. they usually say one thing and then so somthing different.
and tippy is right, line lands are going the way of the dinosaur
I was polled by Gallup in the 70’s. Tip is right about the land line problem, although Gallup did start calling cell phones in January.
Surely “blocked calls” affects polling, and I would bet that call blocking is more prevalent among certain groups of people. Not sure who that would be, but it seems a reasonable probability.
I must be on somebody’s sucker list. Even though my number is only a little over a year old I get called all the time. Both consumer and political pollsters call me. Got one just this morning.
One more point. Even though it was many years ago I was in a Nielsen family.
Was that Ozzie and Harriet? Cash Green?
Take a poll on how many disabled veterans cannot get life insurance.
So you can fight for a nation that has the largest insurance industry in the world, but you cannot get life insurance from the nation you just defended. How many Americans know this?