The Triumph of Hope Over Self-Interest

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Fri Jan 17 07:58:05 PST 2003


JBrown72073 at cs.com wrote:


>Carrol, taking me literally, writes:
>>Jenny, in order to carry out the survey you suggest, how many survey
>>people would it take? How many hours from each? How much would the cost
>>of surveyors cost?
>>
>>How much would it cost (and how many people) to work out an accurate
>>selection of people to question?
>>
>>How many people would you question? (Presumably in the thousands)
>
>Shucks. I was just trying to cheer up despairing victims of the US polling
>industry, not proposing a new project.

I think it costs about $20,000 to do a serious national poll. I loved Jenny's questions - let's raise some funds!

Doug



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