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Planet Money tries election polling

Planet Money

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How Many Calls Do You Need to Make to Get a Completed Survey?

People just don't want to pick up their phones or they screen their calls. Barbara says pollsters have come up with a couple ways to try to fix the problem. The first solution is maybe just abandoning the phone poll altogether. And there's a third idea that economists love called the wisdom of crowds.

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