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Old Jun 27, 2005 | 7:14 am
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Originally Posted by BearX220
elgringito, ILUVCITIBANK is saying the same thing I am... and so have lots of others:


I have said before that the Freddies are a worthless yardstick of FF program quality because the voters are a self-selected sample. It's not a statistically valid way to conduct a survey. It's more like an election. If Nielsen conducted TV ratings like this, inviting fans of various shows to write in, some teen drivel on the WB would emerge as "more popular" than 60 Minutes.

Having said that, even the CO diehards seem to have caught on lately -- I don't think OnePass won much of anything this year.
Having worked at a consulting firm, I can remind us all that surveys are often designed to steer people in directions with no alternative choice. In some cases, stacked to make it be the choice they hope for.
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