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A Summary of Various Studies on Unsolicited Live Operator
Sales Calls to Homes
- 0.1% "like" receiving them (that's
1 out of 1000!)
- Field Research Corp. Commissioned
by Pacific Telephone & Telegraph, 1978
- 3% find calls useful
- Public Pulse, The Roper Organization - Inc. Magazine,
January, 1989
- 83% prefer not to be called, 11% more say it
depends
- Public Pulse, The Roper Organization - Inc.
Magazine, January, 1989
- 67% are very annoyed
- The Roper Organization - American Demographics Magazine,
March, 1991
- 78% find it unacceptable
- Ebasco Consulting, commissioned by the Washington State
Utility Commission, 1985
- 86% consider it annoying
- Field Research Corp. Commissioned by Pacific Telephone &
Telegraph, 1978
- 70% see it as an invasion of privacy
- Walker Research - Telemarketing Magazine, March 1991
- 69% consider it an offensive way to sell
- Walker Research - Telemarketing Magazine, March
1991
- 82% think it is either an invasion of privacy
or a nuisance
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Harris-Equifax Consumer Privacy Study, 1991