Some organizations (Associated Press, New York Times) refuse to report polls using nonprobability sampling—respondents selected without known probabilities of selection—but Rivers argues they are in denial because their own low-response telephone polls also lack known selection probabilities.

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my general view is there reporting polls without known probabilities of selection but they're in denial about that

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Doug Rivers on polling 7/21/2008EconTalk
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