A significant disadvantage of telephone interviewing as compared with face-to-face interviewing is that A) telephone interviewing is more costly. B) there is more likelihood that the interviewer will fake data in telephone interviews. C) frequent call-backs become very expensive if no one answers the phone. D) only persons with telephones can be reached.

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Telephone interviewing limits the population to those who have telephones, excluding anyone without access to this technology and potentially biasing the sample.

A Significant Disadvantage of Telephone Interviewing as Compared with Face-To-Face