Is it true that "Scientific" polls....

[pepperbear]

like Gallop, when polling politic, tend to skew older? A friend of mine says he gets tons of bothersome calls (I suspect he is fairly apolitical)from both the Dems and the Reeps. I wondered why I never got any calls, because I'd like to have thrown a couple of disapproves their way. He said that I'll start getting calls when I move into the next age bracket (45+). We're both on the DNC list.

:shrug:

[JI7]

1. i think it's because older people tend to vote more

so they call a larger percentage of them than others.

[FloridaPat]

2. Older people go out less and some love to spend time on the

phone talking because they don't see anyone all day.

[TreasonousBastard]

3. It's more likely the neighborhood he lives in...

when setting up the sampling, pollsters often look for "representative" neighborhoods and make random calls within them.

One place I lived, I got called all the time, and when I moved across town, never got called again, even though I kept the same number. Where I am now, I got one call in the last six months, and that was just a consumer survey.

[SoCalDem]

4. Mostly "landlines" called,

and if they call during the day, they will not reach many middle class, 2 earner families, and if they get an answering machine, they probably hang up..

Older people tend to be at home, and they manually answer their phones.. and younger folks mostly have unlisted/do-not-call cell phones these days..