Unlike polls that solicit respondents over the Internet on an opt-in basis — a tactic that polling experts say is problematic because the resulting sample can be unscientific — PPC relied on a panel of respondents that had been assembled randomly using traditional mail and telephone techniques by the market research firm Nielsen Scarborough.
Stories produced under Carolyn's guidance include not just memorable examples of accountability journalism but humanizing accounts of Mayor Bloomberg's salty diet, his subway travels and Bermuda weekend life, Andrew Cuomo's telephone techniques and tow-truck-driving past, David Paterson's gay "uncles" and his anxieties about his future, Carl Paladino's hugging and Kirsten Gillibrand's blossoming.
Recommended reading: Telephone Techniques: The Essential Guide to Thinking and Working Smarter, by Lin Walker, AMACOM Press, NY, NY, 1999 ($12.95).
This randomized trial had assessed the effectiveness of three telephone techniques to assist untrained volunteers in performing cardiac massage in vital emergency situations [ 34].
The aim was to describe a strategy for recruitment of healthy volunteers (HV) to a randomized trial that assessed the efficacy of different telephone techniques to assist HV in performing cardiac massage for vital emergency.
Rather than face-to-face interviews, computer-assisted telephone techniques or web-based technologies can potentially be used at a population level to replicate this study in other health systems.
This makes it attractive to manipulate permutations of public networks and private lines to ensure that more calls over the public network are received than sent.Smuggling telephone callsOne technique is called "refile".
This is a telephone surveying technique in which the interviewer follows a script provided by a software application that manages call scheduling, geographical distribution, quota control, disposition monitoring and call organization.
The survey was administered by a commercial company, using computer-assisted telephone interview techniques to 1250 households selected using random digit dialling and quota controls.
Interviewers were trained in telephone interviewing techniques by Statistics Canada staff.
