Poll Vaulting

I wish I could vault all polls. Just to jump over them would do. Most polls are ninety nine and a half percent unreliable, to use their terms. Think of it. Most polling companies have a stable of steadies. This is a control poll. Having applied and been denied by one for age reasons, I learned they are sort of "fixed", and as reliable as a ring on a string in predicting anything that really matters to the world at large.  A true general poll ought to be of a swath of  society randomly and widely taken, not chosen people tailored to respond a certain way. A poll I read the other day, said that our country is the eighteenth most "unhappy" one, after having been polled previously as "happy". First, I was sad. Later I laughed at the audacity of this "poll" on happiness. I began to think how wrong it is that some individuals consider polls to be absolute truth even with a bit of percentage "accuracy" tacked on.  This one made me feel only gloomy.  It's okay to poll some tangible matters if the opinions are needed, but to assume that a poll is what people will use as a life guide is ridiculous. The matter of being polled needs thought, but mostly by the companies who do them. To answer their phone poll questions with any degree of consideration, is impossible. The polls that might be  useful are those that allow time to answer on a longer term basis. Most of the quick polls ask questions on a phone. Unless they answer my questions first, all they get from me is a click. I want to know who is calling me and why and then I tell them that I will answer only what I think is safe. But polling to assess "happiness"? First, who can define what makes a person happy? Is it money, success, love, family, places? All people have a different "happiness", and most of the time, they aren't about to tell a complete stranger on a phone, what aspect of life represents their personal happiness. Those sorts of polls need to be vaulted off the media and its time spent doing  research into facts, not fanciful queries.