# Anybody here ever actually been polled by 538, Gallup, Pew Research, etc? **URL:** \ **Category:** Politics & Elections\ **Created:** [December 4, 2019, 3:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-here-ever-actually-been-polled-by-538-gallup-pew-research-etc/844360 "2019-12-04T15:31:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![asterion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/4da419/32.png) [@asterion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/asterion)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2019, 3:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-here-ever-actually-been-polled-by-538-gallup-pew-research-etc/844360/21 "2019-12-18T15:41:50Z")
I got called by Siena occasionally when I lived in Albany. Siena is Siena College, located in Albany, NY and considered a good pollster, if a bit smaller. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2019, 5:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-here-ever-actually-been-polled-by-538-gallup-pew-research-etc/844360/22 "2019-12-18T17:30:06Z")
I was called a couple months ago for a poll on Trump. They didn’t tell me what company was conducting the poll or who the client was. ---
**Author:** ![Rushgeekgirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rushgeekgirl/32/3715_2.png) [@Rushgeekgirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rushgeekgirl)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2019, 5:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-here-ever-actually-been-polled-by-538-gallup-pew-research-etc/844360/23 "2019-12-18T17:42:47Z")
I’ve done dozens of political polls through Amazon Mturk both online and by phone call. The thing is I usually don’t know what platform or company is polling me. I just get a “requester” name and they are often not real names but project names. ---
**Author:** ![thorny\_locust](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thorny_locust/32/431_2.png) [@thorny\_locust](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thorny_locust)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2019, 8:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-here-ever-actually-been-polled-by-538-gallup-pew-research-etc/844360/24 "2019-12-18T20:04:13Z")
> [@Loach](#): > > When I hang up on requests for polls I wonder how many people feel the way I do and if it throws off the numbers. They ask too much personal information that I am not willing to give over the phone. If I knew 100% that the random person on the other end was really from one of the major polling companies I would be happy to participate. A random unsolicited call? Click. > > To answer the OP I’ve received several requests by phone but I’m not certain from where and I never participated. Pretty much same as above. I sometimes wonder whether I should start taking them, at least if they come when I’ve got time; but I really have no way of telling who’s on the other end of the phone, and there’s pretty limited information I’d be willing to give them. In addition, my response to a lot of questions doesn’t fit into any of the boxes that polls usually want to check; so I wind up arguing with the poll that no, I can’t answer that question in that form, do they want to hear the form I will address that issue in? No, they generally do not. ---
**Author:** ![dalej42](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/67e7ee/32.png) [@dalej42](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dalej42)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2020, 12:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-here-ever-actually-been-polled-by-538-gallup-pew-research-etc/844360/25 "2020-01-06T00:24:25Z")
Just ran across this on Twitter, someone reported they just got polled > ---
**Author:** ![kitap](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b9e5f3/32.png) [@kitap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kitap)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2020, 12:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-here-ever-actually-been-polled-by-538-gallup-pew-research-etc/844360/26 "2020-01-06T00:41:35Z")
Pew tried to survey me about a month ago; they left a message on my cellphone that they would call back but never did. I am, however, a Disney survey magnet. ---
**Author:** ![mjmlabs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mjmlabs/32/69_2.png) [@mjmlabs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mjmlabs)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2020, 2:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-here-ever-actually-been-polled-by-538-gallup-pew-research-etc/844360/27 "2020-01-06T14:16:42Z")
I’ve been polled at least twice over the landline; the most recent was from Quinnipiac, sometime during Dubya One. Pretty standard-sounding multiple-choice questions re: degrees of approval (or lack) of various contemporaneous policies and personages, mostly on a five-value scale; strong approve, somewhat approve, meh, and so on. Didn’t seem to do a lick of good. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-here-ever-actually-been-polled-by-538-gallup-pew-research-etc/844360.md?page=1)