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hennelltoday at 6:14 AM2 repliesview on HN

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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tgvtoday at 11:06 AM

Actual visiting. Has been done. Still seems to be the preferred method in parts of the world with unreliable internet.

parineumtoday at 12:05 PM

That's like punching the ground because it hurts to punch the wall.

Online polling isn't an improvement, it's just a different error.

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