How Reliable Is Polling When No One Answers?

Nate Cohn: “In the poll we have in the field right now, only 0.4 percent of dials have yielded a completed interview. If you were employed as one of our interviewers at a call center, you would have to dial numbers for two hours to get a single completed interview.”

“The Times has more resources than most organizations, but this is getting pretty close to ‘death of telephone polling’ numbers.”