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- From: jnielsen@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (John F Nielsen)
- Subject: Re: yet another consumer reports article (
- Message-ID: <1993Jan26.154854.2786@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu>
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- References: <1993Jan25.174221.11394@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu> <1k1t96INN176@seven-up.East.Sun.COM>
- Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 15:48:54 GMT
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- In article <1k1t96INN176@seven-up.East.Sun.COM> ebergman@phaedrus.East.Sun.COM writes:
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- >True. But you can't know what factors will cause people to
- >respond differentially. For example, in the poll I cited above,
- >the reason that Roosevelt did so poorly is that Readers of the
- >Literary Digest who *had phones* were more likely to be Republicans,
- >because phones were still relatively expensive in 1936.
-
- Ah, but that is not the issue. I am not talking about using
- the phone data to talk about the rest of the population. I am
- using it to talk about people who buy AT&T phones compared to
- people who buy ITT phones.
-
-
- >For all we know, readers of Consumer Reports are highly likely to
- >have families -- perhaps in the large samples, the people who
- >drive the Taurus treat it with greater care than those who drive
- >an Eclipse, for example.
-
- Care is not that big an issue, most of it is standardized in scheduled
- maintainance which you follow if you want to keep the warranty.
- Also, care is an issue of time. It takes time for one to damage
- the car and and that would not show up until much later
- in the ownership.
-
- If care was something really hard to do, then maybe you would have a
- point.
-
- john
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