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Cell phones causing skewed polls?
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RE: Cell phones causing skewed polls?
(October 26, 2012 at 7:50 pm)Ryantology Wrote: Why 50/50? There are more cell phones in the U.S. than people to use them. 90% of Americans use them. Polls should be, at the very least, 90/10 in favor of cell numbers.
Correct. This would make the polls more accurate than "weighting", which as another way of saying correcting the faults in polls by bets guessing.

On Nov 6th, I'm very curious to see if they have indeed kept up with the fast pace of technology.
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Cell phones causing skewed polls? - by Aroura - October 26, 2012 at 2:33 pm
RE: Cell phones causing skewed polls? - by Minimalist - October 26, 2012 at 3:00 pm
Cell phones causing skewed polls? - by festive1 - October 26, 2012 at 6:30 pm
RE: Cell phones causing skewed polls? - by Tino - October 26, 2012 at 7:34 pm
RE: Cell phones causing skewed polls? - by Ryantology - October 26, 2012 at 7:50 pm
RE: Cell phones causing skewed polls? - by Aroura - October 26, 2012 at 8:46 pm

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