I suspect that telemarketers have found a way around the do-not-call list: by pretending that they’re conducting a poll.
I just got a call from a “pollster” asking about the economy and problems in the US that ended right after they found out I had less than $500,000 in cash to invest in anything.
Either that, or pollsters don’t care about the opinions of folks who make less than $150,000 a year. Yes, they asked about that too.
Well, I actually conducted telephone polls for five fabulous weeks a couple of years ago, and I’d say it depends on how many questions you were asked before that.
The polls I conducted always put the relevant questions at the beginning, followed by the demographic questions such as sex, age, and income information. So it could be that that really was the end of the survey.