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You Can't Have It Both Ways

Posted by: Ron Findling
Date posted: Tue Jun 17 2:39:56 PDT 1997

Again, thanks for the response. I do appreciate it.

But Rachel, you can't have it both ways. This site is
open to all. And you wrote that your poll *accurately*
reflects what the readers here think, too. But you
didn't ask a proper representative sample of them, but
only those of them who have subscriptions to the print
edition, too.

And again, considering most readers of IE likely don't
*have* a subscription to the print edition, that means
their demographics can be (and likely are) very
different from the purposefully skewed demographics of
the people you actually polled.

And considering how reports we're reading about how
people have lied in order to get subscriptions to the
print edition, you can't even be certain that the people
who you thought you were targeting really are who they
say they are! A double whammy - with the results that
those who voted aren't representative, or even
identifiable.

Again, how can you continue defending this poll with a
straight face?


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