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For the non Americans, surveys can have any result depending on who and where you interview of course.
So much like any poll numbers can easily be skewed. It sounds like the polling company attempts to ensure a balanced urban and rural selection and balance between states and DC (which is sort of an imaginary 51st state if you will)
Here is how the company said this poll was taken:
Gallup interviews U.S. adults aged 18 and older living in all 50 states and the District of Columbia using a dual-frame design, which includes both landline and cellphone numbers. Gallup samples landline and cellphone numbers using random-digit-dial methods. Gallup purchases samples for this study from Survey Sampling International (SSI). Gallup chooses landline respondents at random within each household based on which member had the next birthday. Each sample of national adults includes a minimum quota of 70% cellphone respondents and 30% landline respondents, with additional minimum quotas by time zone within region. Gallup conducts interviews in Spanish for respondents who are primarily Spanish-speaking.
Source:https://www.gallup.com/175307/gallup-poll-social-series-methodology.aspx
There's still a self-sorting selection bias, I imagine. The kind of batshit insane person that both will answer their phone when it's an unknown number, and will then go on to answer a survey after they pick up the call.
I'm only kind of joking here.
I stopped at a mall one day to kill an hour before my A+ certification test. I was asked to do a movie trailer survey, but since I was checked out thinking of the exam questions the surveyor pretty much answered the questions for me.
The only other time I answered my phone was as a teen for some gas price survey in the 90's as I craved ANY human interaction
I have a Pixel phone. It will screen unknown numbers and ask them why they are calling, and then pass on their response to me (text and audio). A vast majority just hang up when they hear the automated message. The few that don't often end up being a recording that wasn't sophisticated enough to know that it was being played to essentially another recording.
Edit: and by "unknown number" I mean "not in my contacts list".