At 11:17 AM 2/13/2002 -0600, Jim Rhodes/K0XU wrote:
>I wonder if the survey groups that are polled tend to be from the higher
>density population areas. This alone would bias the survey against contesters.
>I would be very interested in how they choose the survey population. Living
>most of my life in the midwest I have gotten used to the fact that our
>opinions don't count as much as those from either coast.
Jim - if we did that, the results would be meaningless to us. I think you may
have succumbed to the "black hole" syndrome... :^ )
From the survey appendix: "The survey sample of 1200 was selected in
systematic, stratified fashion..." It only included licensed, domestic (USA)
members. "Responses have been weighted in tabulation to accurately reflect
true population proportions." The weighting was by license class reported in
the FCC database.
No attempt was made to adjust weighting based on anything else (age, years
licensed, hours on the air, type of activity, etc).
-- Tom
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