Providing an answer has not been easy, because close examination of the detailed tables for the two sets of polls simply uncovers the fact that
phone polls find more Remain voters than internet polls do within more or less every category of voter.
Not exact matches
A Harris
poll of
phone owners
found that nearly 10 % said their
phone had been stolen at one point, and a recent study
found that lost and stolen cell
phones cost consumers over $ 30 billion last year.
A ComRes
poll for the Independent
found that all party leaders had been hit by the
phone - hacking scandal - even Ed Miliband, who was widely considered to have dealt with it well - but that Mr Cameron was considerably the most damaged.
A couple of other notable features: a
find - your - local - volunteer - office page, a virtual
phone bank and as election day neared, a Google Maps - based
find - your -
polling - place application.
It is just that
phone polls have typically been
finding around 10 % more Remain voters amongst younger voters than have internet
polls, and 10 % more amongst older voters too.
For our part, it is clear that
phone polls steadfastly continue to collect too many Labour voters in the raw sample, and the challenge for
phone polling is to
find a way to overcome the systematic reasons for doing so.
Pre-election opinion
polls canvas people via
phone and the internet to
find out which party they support and whether they intend to vote.
This number represents a 162 percent increase in «I do's» since 2005, when Harris Interactive conducted a similar
phone poll that
found an average of 90 eHarmony members married every day.
Project Tomorrow's Speak Up survey, 1 which
polled more than 300,000 students, parents, and administrators about 21st - century skills and technology use in school,
found that students are increasingly discontented with rules that limit their access to technology at school and prohibit them from using the tools and devices they use outside school, such as cell
phones, e-mail, and text messaging.
Additionally, World Wide Worx and GeoPoll
polled 3,500 mobile
phone users in South Africa, Nigeria, Kenya, Ghana and Uganda (700 from each) and
found 17 percent of
phone users indicated they'd be going with BlackBerry as their next
phone brand.
Did you know that An American Animal Hospital Assoc
poll found that 33 % of dog owners admit to talking to their dogs on the
phone and leaving answering machine messages for them while away
After
polling 1,093 Americans over the
phone, researchers
found that high levels of confidence in scientists resulted in a decreased sense of responsibility for global warming.
To prove the ease of transitioning to a virtual law practice, Jay
polled audience members to
find out who in attendance possessed both a smart
phone and laptop; unsurprisingly, many hands were raised.
The
poll also
found that 69 percent of those surveyed agreed that using a handheld cellphone while driving was dangerous, but 74 percent admitted to talking on the
phone while driving and 21 percent confessed they did so frequently.
The sites»
poll still
found that despite the surprisingly high number of switchers, the iPhone 6 was still the
phone most people who use CompareMyMobile UK and GadgetValuer USA planned to purchase.
A 2014 Pew Research Center
poll indicated that one in four cell
phone owners in a relationship or marriage
found their partner too distracted by their cell
phone.