"cat" > wrote in message
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> "Sqwertz" > wrote in message
>
>> Fred/Libby Barclay > wrote:
>
>>> This survey was held between April 2007 and April 2008. The survey
>>> covers a total of 48, 831 visits; and findings reflect the experiences
>>> of their readers, not necessarily those of the general population.
>
>> 36,000 people took the survey documenting 48,000 trips to the
>> grocery store? That would mean a awful lot of people never even
>> shopped at any of those stores.
>
>> A recently published survey found that 94.42% of all surveys had
>> serious flaws. And this on is no exception.
>
> I don't take any of CR's "surveys" to mean anything. Their methodology is
> completely removed from standard polling procedure, because it's a
> self-selecting group. It only includes CR readers, who are likely more
> educated and affluent than average, and of those, only CR readers who
> choose to respond to the questionnaire. I can accept anecdotal reports
> from their readers, but not any rankings or statistics.


*spraying wildly*

This is my turf, beeeetch.