Most Americans don't answer cell phone calls from unknown numbers.
This is from 2020, but with all the spam going on, I doubt that has changed much
https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2020/12/14/most-americans-dont-answer-cellphone-calls-from-unknown-numbers/
“ Americans just aren’t picking up the phone much anymore. Eight-in-ten Americans say they don’t generally answer their cellphone when an unknown number calls, according to newly released findings from a Pew Research Center web survey of U.S. adults conducted July 13-19, 2020.”
It also says, those that do answer those calls are mostly men.
I wonder how this poll was conducted?
Polling is a business, and pollsters get money from conducting polls
https://www.pbs.org/publiceditor/blogs/pbs-public-editor/the-problem-with-polls/
“ There’s a dirty little secret that we pollsters need to own up to,” wrote polling expert David Hill, president of Hill Research Consultants and a 2020 fellow at the University of Southern California’s Dornsife Center for the Political Future, in The Washington Post in 2020. “People don’t talk to us anymore, and it’s making polling less reliable.”
Now, that is a strong statement.
The PBS Public Editor’s office caught up with Hill to discuss the email we’d received from Stevens.
“There’s a whole class of Americans who don’t answer calls with caller IDs that they don’t know,” Hill said. “If we’re honest … this is all a complete mess today because we can’t really have a true random sample anymore because we can’t get a random sample or anything close to that to cooperate.”
This partially mirrored what Stevens told us. “My opinion is that polling data is generally useful,” Stevens wrote in a followup message to PBS. “I just have concerns about who answers phone calls in 2022.” Poll data “does not account that most people do not do not pick up the phone anymore,” he added. “Who does? And, why do these people get to represent the sum of American sentiment?”
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I picked up, because I'm cool with those. It turned out to be somebody trying to sell Medicare Advantage plans, so I immediately hung up. I thought that would be the end of it, but they kept calling. And calling!
I didn't answer, but they kept on, and it was really annoying. Finally I picked up and sternly snapped at them "I am NOT interested, I hung up on you the first time you called! DO. NOT. CALL. ME. AGAIN! That time they hung up. They have not called back, so I guess they got the message. 
But yeah. 99 times out of 100, I don't pick up if I don't know who it is.
pre-planned burial/cremation, life insurance ("it's never too late to buy whole life"
, dating after 65, senior citizen "active" retirement communities, buy*sell gold/land/diamonds, Social Security glitch (no glitch!), hearing aids/walkers/oxygen/scooters/walk-in tubs, credit card interest rates...and, of course, never-ending polls skewed toward Republicans...
I take calls from my children/grandchildren/doctors/lawyer/accountant....the rest are "scam likely" and blocked
(glad I wasn't sipping my water or you'd owe me a keyboard
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The miracle of cell phones is now limited by capitalist parasites using cell phones for commercial sales calls.
Just so you know, unsolicited sales calls have been illegal in many European countries for almost 50 years now.
But, yeah, go business! 
Then a month later the Medicaid calls started. 
Now as soon as I hear the click I know it's a robocall and hang up.
I used to leave him fairly detailed voicemails. Then a couple of hours (or days) later I’d get a call back or text saying, “I saw you called. What’s up?”
I’ve learned my lesson! Everybody — and every generation — has their own communication preferences. I’ve grown to appreciate the benefits of asynchronous communication over the years.
This is from my phone; I’m sure there’s a similar feature on Android
I do always answer any call from a Research Organization, the Dem party or Repug party. I love to give my opinions to the rw asses and see how fast they drop me.
The robo-dialers are all computers now and most of them know how to "spoof" the CallerID and make it look like a local call. But it's really from India or god-knows-where. Why do they even bother with this shit? What do they think they can sell me, to make all these calls worth the trouble?
