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- From: anderson@macc.wisc.edu (Jess Anderson)
- Subject: Re: Size of LGB Vote
- Message-ID: <1992Nov16.183905.25643@macc.wisc.edu>
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- Organization: Madison Academic Computing Center, UW-Madison
- References: <1dc7p1INN5pp@seven-up.East.Sun.COM> <17701@bcars664.bnr.ca> <1992Nov16.173734.7846@gordian.com>
- Date: Mon, 16 Nov 92 18:39:05 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov16.173734.7846@gordian.com>
- mike@gordian.com (Michael A. Thomas) writes:
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- >For starters, nobody knows how many gay people there are --
- >not even the not in the closet gay identified variety. How
- >then does one estimate their voting patterns or income or
- >toilet paper preferences?
-
- A few hundred well-chosen phone calls and a very well
- designed questionnaire instrument can indeed tell you a lot
- about any population you want to look at. You can, if you
- work at it, determine within about three percent how many
- closeted gay men buy "green" toilet paper or any other
- cockamamie statistic you want. Randomizing the sample is
- not difficult, but the questionnaire is *really* tough.
-
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