...That is my position about polls. Useful for trends, useless...contact with people using listed landlines (the main technique) has...some details about how the polls are conducted. Otherwise the... 'consumers' of the polls, ultimately the public, have ...
... that the polling companies face with lower numbers of listed landlines? Or...
.... The diminishing number of listed landlines severely cramps their techniques because... population of people with listed landlines away from the underlying population... if they start believing the polls too much.
.... Now figure out the polling problem if you didn't have...the electorate's people have listed landlines at their household. For someone... land-line. Essentially the polls are crap because the pollsters... and close to useless for polling. That is the extreme, ...
...bias happening in the poll methodology. Using landlines is heavily biased ...conservative. They have a listed landline. As far as I ...can see having a listed landline is indicator that you're ...reducing numbers of listed landlines. If the polls are wide really ...
... reject a professionally executed poll for being inaccurate, only... people than any genuine poll would canvass. I deliberately...for this election. The polls have some fundamental flaws ...number of landlines reduces. The MSM's interpretation of polls just shows...
... relative to landlines and relative ages. Currently polls are useful ...5%, +1%, 0% in successive polls from the same company targeted...get. Averaging the various polls tends to give better results...and bigger variances between the polls and the canvassing. I'm...
... that those who don't get polled or don't yet have an... as those who have been polled and do have an opinion... spread of the lack of landline access was even. It isn't... out when you look at landlines. Firstly that there is a...
Written By: lprent - Date published: 6:49 pm, September 20th, 2008 - 34 comments
Categories: polls
Tags: chris trotter, newswire
… on the availability of landlines with the Wellington Central …year. The published telephone polls are self-selecting samples of…companies make cross analysis of polls almost useless. At worst,… the pontificating about polls and across poll series by the …
Written By: lprent - Date published: 11:04 am, September 2nd, 2008 - 10 comments
Categories: polls
Tags: act, alliance, christian heritage, Peter Dunne, united future
…for child rape – is polling 0.4%, ahead of both…about the art of public polling in New Zealand. The… (because of lack of landlines or busy lives), the …the other side of the polling problem. So far, voters…they are 'voting' in the polls for a defunct party….
...think you understand how the polls operate. Otherwise you wouldn't...involved in politics trusts the polls because their methodology is ...because they don't have listed landlines. That is also differentially ... people who participate in polls are a self-selected ...
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