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parineumtoday at 5:20 AM2 repliesview on HN

The easy fix is to not do online polling.


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hennelltoday at 6:14 AM

You need to though. If you only do phone call polls you're only going to poll people with (landline?) phones who answer (random?) calls and have the time/enthusiasm to respond when you call. That heavily skews demographics.

A lot of people will only do online polling, and it's by far the easiest way to cover a lot of demographics (need to supplement with other methods as well if you don't want a poll of "internet users" - but that is a far larger and varied group than most other methods would produce)

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LateCheckOuttoday at 5:42 AM

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