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21 June 2007, 02:56
Hey, I made that point in 2004!
[8 July 2007. Oops. Actually, looking back soberly, apparently I didn’t make that point in 2004! Even though I still “remember” pretty clearly that I did! I guess I was conflating and confusing this post and this one. The pretty run-of-the-mill point I imagine myself as having been eager to convey was just that those taking advantage of the proliferation of call-screening (thereby poll-avoiding) methods available for landlines (e.g., the message machine, voicemail, caller ID, selective call-forwarding, even cell phones) might (it’s at least an open question) betray a (liberal) political slant. But while I was writing that post (or perhaps some other post I’ve lost track of) I was really thinking, in my imaginary memory at least, about the problem of cell phones especially, and that those voters accesible only via cell phones may very likely tend to skew towards one end of the political continuum (e.g., the left end, as we hope).

Not to toot my own horn, but i thought i’d toot my own horn [yes, I’m leaving this really humiliating stuff in for the sake of . . . duh, HUMILIATION]. The Pew Research Center just came out with a piece, How Serious Is Polling’s Cell-Only Problem? The Landline-less Are Different and Their Numbers Are Growing Fast, exploring how increased ownership of and reliance solely on cell phones may effect the future of opinion research:

Twenty years ago the survey research profession—having grown comfortable with telephone interviewing as an alternative to personal interviewing for conducting surveys—worried mostly about the roughly 7% of U.S. households that could not be interviewed because they had no telephone. Today our concern is somewhat different, and potentially more serious. According to government statistics released last month, nearly 13% of U.S. households (12.8%) cannot now be reached by the typical telephone survey because they have only a cell phone and no landline telephone.1

If people who can only be reached by cell phone were just like those with landlines, their absence from surveys would not create a problem for polling. But cell-only adults are very different. The National Health Interview Survey found them to be much younger, more likely to be African American or Hispanic, less likely to be married, and less likely to be a homeowner than adults with landline telephones. These demographic characteristics are correlated with a wide range of social and political behaviors.


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