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Maybe we didn't really want a poll (sboland) Today

Uhhhhhh......maybe.....

Posted by: acagle
Date posted: Wed, 18 Jun 1997

I don't have any real problems with the mechanics of the latest survey, but I still haven't seen any adequate description of what the whole thing was for in the first place. "We want to know what a representative cross section of our readers think" isn't good enough.

As I've said before, one's problem orientation determines one's sampling (or lack thereof) procedure. We still haven't been given any particular reason why a self-selected sample/poll was not acceptable -- because they haven't said what the goal was. Depending on what they are trying to find out, this sample may be just as biased and unreliable as anything else.


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