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JohnSJ

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5. I think that may be a possibility, however, I suspect a bigger problem involves people not answering

Reply to qazplm135 (Reply #3)

Fri Oct 29, 2021, 10:56 PM

Oct 2021

calls from numbers they don’t recognize, so the polls reflect only those callers who are willing to answer calls from unknown numbers, and doesn’t include those who don’t answer calls from unknown numbers

I don’t know how significant that is, but with all the spam and spoofing calls going on, I think it is material factor that needs to be factored in

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