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Not Properly Representative

Posted by: Ron Findling
Date posted: Thu Jun 19 3:56:14 PDT 1997

"I guaranteed that the new poll
would reflect the opinions of
InfoWorld readers, not InfoWorld
Electric-only readers. Sixty
percent of the poll's respondents
are Electric readers as well so
we clearly didn't exclude
Electric readers.

Hi Sandy, hope you're enjoying
your vacation! Or are you back
now...?

Anyways, there's a huge flaw in
your statement above.

Since most of your Infoworld
Electric readers likely don't
have a print subscription,
relying on votes only from those
who are subscribers cannot be
considered to be representative
of Infoworld Electric readers.

After all, "not excluding"
Infoworld Electric readers is
*not* necessarily the same thing
as properly representative of
them.

If I'm wrong, can you point out
where, please? Thanks.


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