Most Americans don't answer cell phone calls from unknown numbers. [View all]

[JohnSJ]

This is from 2020, but with all the spam going on, I doubt that has changed much


https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2020/12/14/most-americans-dont-answer-cellphone-calls-from-unknown-numbers/

“ Americans just aren’t picking up the phone much anymore. Eight-in-ten Americans say they don’t generally answer their cellphone when an unknown number calls, according to newly released findings from a Pew Research Center web survey of U.S. adults conducted July 13-19, 2020.”

It also says, those that do answer those calls are mostly men.

I wonder how this poll was conducted?

Polling is a business, and pollsters get money from conducting polls

https://www.pbs.org/publiceditor/blogs/pbs-public-editor/the-problem-with-polls/

“ There’s a dirty little secret that we pollsters need to own up to,” wrote polling expert David Hill, president of Hill Research Consultants and a 2020 fellow at the University of Southern California’s Dornsife Center for the Political Future, in The Washington Post in 2020. “People don’t talk to us anymore, and it’s making polling less reliable.”

Now, that is a strong statement.

The PBS Public Editor’s office caught up with Hill to discuss the email we’d received from Stevens.

“There’s a whole class of Americans who don’t answer calls with caller IDs that they don’t know,” Hill said. “If we’re honest … this is all a complete mess today because we can’t really have a true random sample anymore because we can’t get a random sample or anything close to that to cooperate.”

This partially mirrored what Stevens told us. “My opinion is that polling data is generally useful,” Stevens wrote in a followup message to PBS. “I just have concerns about who answers phone calls in 2022.” Poll data “does not account that most people do not do not pick up the phone anymore,” he added. “Who does? And, why do these people get to represent the sum of American sentiment?”