Marketplace Tech Report for October 15, 2010

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Are political polls accurate in the age of cell phones?

by Molly Wood

Oct 15, 2010

As Election Day approaches, there are many polls predicting -- with varying degrees of accuracy -- the outcome of the elections. Many of those polls are conducted by automated calling of land line phones. But given how many people use cell phones instead of land lines, can we trust what the polls say?

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