{"id":3995,"date":"2008-11-04T02:55:54","date_gmt":"2008-11-04T07:55:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/?p=3995"},"modified":"2010-11-24T02:35:34","modified_gmt":"2010-11-24T07:35:34","slug":"the-trouble-with-cell-phones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2008\/11\/04\/the-trouble-with-cell-phones\/","title":{"rendered":"The Trouble with Cell Phones"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Many of the polls that we have been consuming voraciously have not included people without a land line (like me).\u00a0 In the figure below, we can see what a difference that makes in the results.\u00a0 Yellow bars are polls that included cell phones and grey bars are polls that did not.\u00a0 Those that excluded cell phones are significantly skewed towards McCain, and falsely so insofar as people without\u00a0a landline vote.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2008\/11\/cellphones-261x300.png\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3996  aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2008\/11\/cellphones-261x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"261\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fivethirtyeight.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">538<\/a> via <a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/2008\/11\/03\/the-cellular-effect\/\" target=\"_blank\">Thick Culture<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many of the polls that we have been consuming voraciously have not included people without a land line (like me).\u00a0 In the figure below, we can see what a difference that makes in the results.\u00a0 Yellow bars are polls that included cell phones and grey bars are polls that did not.\u00a0 Those that excluded cell [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[274,85,238,693],"class_list":["post-3995","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-methodsuse-of-data","tag-politics","tag-election-2008","tag-public-opinion"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3995","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3995"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3995\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29853,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3995\/revisions\/29853"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3995"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3995"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3995"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}