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Who Does Polls?

I don't know if I ever filled out a poll. Why would I? It's the same reason I try not to read SPAM email or listen to SPAMcalls (is that a word?).

I thought it was bad enough to have Polls use telephones to reach potential poll-people, but now they use the internet to poll people. The people who take polls are NOT the average person. NO way! The average person is too busy to waste there time answering inane questions. I know that's true because I took a poll. 100% of the people in my room here said they  don't have time for polls. However, 100% of them have made time to write about the taking of polls.

If you're like me and you're walking down the street and you see someone with a clipboard, you turn away, pretend to be busy, or just plain ignore them.

The last Presidential election proved the worthlessness of polls. But everyday, we hear more polls. I did another poll, and it said 76% of all statistical polls are made up on the spot (I know! That's not an original joke! sorry!).

And the news channels and the rest of the media pretend that the polls actually mean something! Is the news media so bad at researching actual news stories that they can't do there own research so they find some stupid poll and treat it as news.

And then there's the stories about how if you change the way the questions are asked you can get people to answer anyway you want. Ouch!

But I don't know what to do about it. Somewhere along the lines you do need to understand what people think. Polls suck, but without asking people, what are you going to do?
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