re: #12 Mich-again

I have a hard time figuring out how any of the pollsters get a couple thousand random people to answer their home phones when caller ID says “unkown caller”. I’d take a wild guess they have to make 50,000 calls to get 2,000 answers.

From what I’ve seen it’s usually closer to 5:1 than 25:1, but people definitely hang up on these things at a pretty solid rate, which leads to the problem of figuring out if the subpopulation of people who actually respond is really representative of the whole population.