--- Doug Pensinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Jan Coffey wrote:
> > statistics gatheing techniqes vary and therefore are not comparable.
>
> Bullsh*t. Or at least bullsh*t until you provide evidence that the
> above is true, or your own statistics that use the same "gathering
> techniques" or that make the necessary corrections.
>
> And even if gathering techniques vary, I doubt they would wipe out a
> 18% difference.
No, it is not my duty to do that study. It is the duty of those making the
claim to do the study in such a way that there is no other resonable
explination for the results. Comparing statistics gathered in two compleatly
different ways is esentaily useless for comparison.
FREX two studies ask what percentage of a population like Sci-Fi.
Study 1 askes how often the individual watches the Sci-Fi channel, Study 2
askes how many books by Asimove the individual has read.
The results can be very different in the same population. Comparing study 1
from population (a) and study 2 from population (b), is compleatly useless.
You may in fact be correct, but you can not use two seperate studies of this
nature to support it.
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