I continue to insist that in the year 2024 “voters who take phone calls from strange numbers and supply truthful responses for an extended duration about personal political preferences” is in no way a representative sample of “voters”
Yup. In the unlikely event I answered, I would not divulge ANY personal information!
This is true.
this practice is like fishing in the ocean using a cigarette butt on a hook and declaring the entire ocean is comprised of the two types of weird fish that bit your hook and you landed in the boat
“They just like talking to salesmen.”
but using simple math 1059/93,000 = a completely representative sample of American voters deeply concerned about Joe Biden's age
What is this method called? The aristocra– wait, no. The science of poling!
Every phone pollster is Jack Lemmon in Glengarry Glenn Ross not realizing he just met the folks that like to talk to sales people
future generations (if there are any) are going to talk about polling from 2016 to 2024 the way we talk about the Literary Digest poll of 1936
The one percent who will actually answer the phone and spend dozens of minutes on the line with a complete stranger answering endless questions. Where are the news articles about this one percent?