Assessing the Cell Phone Challenge
With fully a quarter of the U.S. adult population now relying solely on cell phone service, pollsters and other survey researchers face a difficult decision as to whether to include cell phones in their samples. A joint study by the Pew Research Center for the People & the Press and the Pew Internet & American Life Project takes an up-to-date look at the potential biases in findings based on landline-only surveys.
Why do many of the questions on your quizzes begin with the phrase: “Do you happen to know….?”
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Can you really gauge the sentiments of the total U.S. population with such small samples?
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Is caller ID is increasing non-response rates in your surveys?
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Can I volunteer to be picked for a survey?
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How do you decide how to word your survey questions?
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How are pollsters able to determine whether an American is a liberal, moderate or conservative?
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What does “PEW” stand for?
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How does the Pew Internet & American Life Project choose the topics that it researches?
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Isn’t the real unemployment rate much higher than you say it is in your news quiz?
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