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The irony is thick. Moving to on-line...now what could go wrong with that?The percentage of Americans willing to participate in telephone polls has hit a new low, according to a new report, raising doubts about the continued viability of the phone surveys that have traditionally dominated politics and elections, both in the media and in campaigns.
By 2012, Pew’s response rate stood at just 9 percent, where it held through 2016.
Pew’s data suggest that decline is underway again, with response rates slipping to 7 percent in 2017 and 6 percent in 2018.
Pew: Phone polling in crisis again
The Pew Research Center reports that the response rate for its phone polls last year fell to just 6 percent.www.politico.com
The American Trends Panel...woo hoo! PEW should transition to conducting consumer research and drop politics all together. They, along with just about every pollster on the planet, missed a huge American Trend last November 2016...and the evidence was there for all to see. Heck, folks were telling the likes of PEW what was about to happen....not scientific enough for them it now appears.