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2naSalit

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12. I have , back in years past
Fri Feb 15, 2019, 11:10 AM
Feb 2019

been a "dialer" at a survey taking company. Back then, and I doubt it's changed much since, you couldn't request interviews on cell phones.

The rules for IPSOS polls were pretty strict. IPSOS was the political standard for polls, we were to identify interviewees by certain criteria such as whether they were voters or likely to vote, that sort of thing. But we also had to make sure that the phone was a landline and a private number, not a business or organization, school, etc..

Most people have cell phones now so it always makes me wonder just what the participant pool actually is and whether the rules for cell phone surveys has changed.

And then there are the actual questions and the wording of such regarding intent of the survey... I don't even want to get into that, those who have written reviewed or presented surveys/polls know what I mean.

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