Week 5:Reading Response 1

The challenges of polling minority communities are that minority groups make up a smaller proportion of the population, which results in the difficulties that interviewers have when trying to reach them. Even when finding a group a group of minorities they have to be suitable for polling, and if they're not suitable then the call is wasted which is a significant expensive factor. Another challenge of polling minority communities is if the respondents do not speak English then the interview protocols have to be converted, so that the minorities are interviewed by people who are fluent in their language. It's also a good idea to match the interviewers' with the race of the minority communities.
These types of problems arise because the polls for the minority communities have to be as precise as possible and it seems the only way of achieving that goal is by interviewing the right minority groups with the right interviewers, and because they are minorities they are difficult to track down, and so finding the right minority to be interviewed is even more difficult. Polling minority communities is important because the minority views contrast with whites as well as others among other minorities. If not done than the margin of error in the general population is plus or minus 3% points at a confidence level of 95%. By not doing so than the minority groups most likely will feel left out thus feeling stereotyped against.