Question about polls:?

Question

You always here about polls in the news that say this percent of the country feels this way or that about a subject. I'm 35 years old and have never been polled on anything. It sort of makes me not trust the polls that I hear about. What do you think? Have you been polled by an orginization about any sort of national subject?

Answer 1

Well, I am older than you and, have never been polled about anything either. Personally, I don't believe all this polling rhetoric. Think about it, if four people are polled, three say yea and one says ney then 75% are in favor. Then the reports are issued of 75% pro whatever. It is nothing new, they have been snookering the public for decades :)

Answer 2

Polls are skewed from the start. So many use a small portion and assume the rest go along in the same percentage. As an example you ask small town America is crime is up and 50% say no. Then the pollsters say 50% of Americans believe crime is not up.

Answer 3

Yes, twice. Once recently about the Presidential candidates, and once in 2000 for the same thing, both by telephone, and I think both of them were Gallup. If you access the actual source of the polls, they usually have an accounting of who they poll and how they do it.

Answer 4

Yes

Answer 5

Really you have never been polled? Geez, it seems like once the elections start getting near I get pollers calling our house daily and sometimes more than once a day. It becomes very annoying.

Answer 6

I was polled once about the baseball strike. polls take a very small sample and extrapolate from that

Answer 7

I've been doing statistical analysis for 20 years and I can guarantee you can get numbers to say anything you want them to say.

Answer 8

if you pic the people you are going to poll you can have whatever answer you want