From: Cory Przybyla (recherchetenet@yahoo.com)
Date: Thu Feb 20 2003 - 00:27:08 MST
--- Alejandro Dubrovsky <s328940@student.uq.edu.au>
wrote:
> from
>
http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2003/02/04/1044318597799.html
>
> The Gallup International survey, released on
> Tuesday, found 68 per cent
> of Australians backed some sort of military action
> against Iraq.
Does anyone have numbers on approximately how many
polls, that would by nature have to take in a random
sampling of the populace...lets use the US here...are
done each day (average of course)? And an average
number of those polled for each issue? I find myself
curious that so many polls represent the American
attitude (they sure have enough come election time),
yet neither I, nor anyone I know well enough to hear
if they received a poll some day, have ever received
one. I'm excluding favorite radio station phone
calls, since oddly almost everyone I know gets those
at some time.
Perhaps if anyone on the list has received them, and
has anyone received many? My initial thoughts are
that I'm not experiencing a statistical anomoly, but
that the polls seem to go to certain people more
consistently than others. I'm not quite sure what the
standard is though. Registered voters? Well no,
everyone else in my family is one and most of my
friends as well. Taxpayers or citizens is definetely
not it, since everyone I refer to is both. Perhaps
the same lists telemarketers get? But I receive a
number of calls each day as do my family members,
again. So what is it? Or is it just my imagination,
and it's statistically lower that I'd know anyone who
received one than I suspected?
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