Re: [Marxism] List Demographics: February 2005

[steve heeren <tzsche@xxxxxxx>]

piece of cake!

now, in order to have any useful statistics, we need a random sample of
the population (which is ALL  the subscribers to marxmail).  so, in
order to get that,  will every tenth one of you please step forward and
send les the info he is asking for? better yet, why don't we have just
the "talented tenth" answer his questionnaire?  we'd look really spiffy
then!   ;-)

seriously, it would be hard to do. a "volunteer" sample would be next to
useless and a ransom (ooops!) sample would be probably yield only a low
"response rate". (can you tell i have a ph.d in social psychology?  8-) )

steve heeren


The weight of this sad time we must obey.
Speak what you feel, not what you ought to say.

                       Shakespeare (King Lear)



Les Schaffer wrote:

> Steve:
>
> to be specific, you would need to agitate for people to send me
> (offlist if desired) a form  that would look SOMEHTING like this:
>
> subscribed address:  bush@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> location: Washington, DC, USA
> age: 56
> Sex: M
> social class: near the top of the heap
> social background: spoon fed
> occupation: Iraq, Afghanistan


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