Whether reading Electric or receiving InfoWorld print, we know that InfoWorld readers are a subset of the world. My neighbors don't get InfoWorld, my parents don't get InfoWorld, and only about half of the parents of my kids' friends even know of InfoWorld, much less read it.
Hence, I don't see a problem with Sean's comment and mine. We went out to find out what InfoWorld readers felt about the products of 1996; we used subscriber phone numbers because that is the only way we knew at the time to be assured of finding actual readers. In the process, we learned that some 60 percent of the participants in the second survey also read InfoWorld Electric at least once a month. We did not attempt to survey Electric readers only. Not because we don't care about Electric readers but because we wanted to fulfill our orignial mission first.
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