"Gary Klass" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> http://lilt.ilstu.edu/gmklass/COW/
Does this prove that TV makes you bad at math or that if you're bad at math
you tend to watch more TV?
This is a bit like the fact that market researchers only glean information
from people who are willing to take part in market research... Consider:
What if a propensity to say 'Yes' to 'Do you want to take part in a survey?'
would also make you like (say) Chocoloate Peanut Butter more?
Given that a small number of people actually take part in market research,
The Fictional Peanut Butter Corporation is going to start manufacturing
Chocolate Peanut Butter based on their survey, and then find no (or not
many) takers in the 'real world'.
Beware statistics, and more importantly, anything based on market research
or a survey.
Okay, rant over,
Carl
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