On Mon, 12 Feb 2007 07:48:11 -0800, SMS <scharf.steven@geemail.com>
wrote in <45d08c3c$0$27255$742ec2ed@news.sonic.net>:

>In any case, the coffee article was vastly different than the cellular
>article. The coffee test was done by their staff. The cellular survey
>was based on nearly 50,000 respondents, which is a extremely large
>sample size with an extremely small margin of error, even when you
>divide by metro area, and divide again by carrier.

No matter how many times you make this claim, it still isn't true. CR
surveys suffer from self-selected samples of a non-representative
population, making the data interesting, but not truly applicable to the
universe of cellular subscribers. In addition, the sample size is
actually small when broken down by area, further increasing the amount
of error.

>The only real fault with the CR survey, and in reality it's a benefit,
>is that CR subscribers tend to be higher income individuals, with higher
>education levels, and are more liberal. Hence they are much more likely
>to travel, and even more likely to travel outside urban areas with their
>phones. This gives Verizon an advantage because their network is much
>more extensive than any of the other carriers.

This is, of course, a wishful claim with no real foundation.

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