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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?


To: Neocon who wrote (37047)9/15/2000 9:59:24 AM
From: TigerPaw  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 769667
 
most reputable organizations (like Gallup) try to compensate for those problems.......
True, but they can only compensate for the bias they know about. If a new howl at the full moon fad starts causing certain people to be unavailable once a month, then the polls are not likely to become aware until after they notice a deviation from sampled to actual values.
TP