>Newspaper polling chiefs are worried about their business
>
> <http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A3735-2004Oct27?language=printer>
>Washington Post
>Post polling director Richard Morin says he listens as fellow
>pollsters talk nervously about the present and agonize about the
>future. "Cell phones, Caller ID and increasingly elaborate call
>screening technologies make it harder than ever to reach a random
>sample of Americans," he writes. "Costs are soaring as cooperation
>rates remain at or near record lows. In some surveys, less than one
>in five calls produces a completed interview -- raising doubts
>whether such polls accurately reflect the views of the public or
>merely report the opinions of stay-at-home Americans who are too
>bored, too infirm or too lonely to hang up."