29221: Collesano (reply) Re: 29215: Kathleen (comment) Re: 29205: Collesano comment re:29202: (Durban & Chin): On the Lancet Study (fwd)

[Bob Corbett <corbetre@webster.edu>]

From: David Collesano <dcc@pobox.com>

Valid random sampling methods are universally accepted in both
academia and industry whether for purposes of testing possible
markets, existing market share, measuring opinion or (as more usual in
the medical journal Lancet) measuring the progress of disease vectors
in a population. Dispute of such an obvious fact rebuts itself.

Kathleen's question:

> Do opinions on the state of Haiti count as a product?  A service?

deserves an answer. Political opinions are always a confected product
and usually in service to one faction or another cf. 'Manufacturing
Consent', Herman & Chomsky
http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/Herman%20/Manufacturing_Consent.html

If Kathleen has lived in Haiti and still can't answer the question
> Who gets/loses the money?