Exclude the excluders

It’s long past time the press stopped publishing polls that do not sample cellphones.

If an enterprising pollster offered a survey that, say, excluded everyone ages 30-44 or those over age 65, no one would pay any attention to it — and rightly so. Yet news outlets regularly publish polls that arbitrarily ignore a similar proportion of the population. A recent study found 39 percent of adults live in households with cellphones only, and no landline. CONT.

Mark Mellman (Mellman Group), The Hill

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