Question 729904: In early 1995, The Milwaukee Sentinel, a morning newspaper in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and The Milwaukee Journal, and afternoon newspaper, merged to become The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel? Several weeks after the merger, a Milwaukee television station, WITI-TV, conducted a telephone call-in survey asking whether viewers like the new Journal Sentinel. The survey was “not scientific” because any viewer wishing to call in could do so.
On April 26, 1995, Tim Cuprisin, in his “Inside TV & Radio” column in the Journal Sentinel, wrote the following comment:
WE DIDN’T CALL: WITI-TV (Channel 6) did one of those polls—which they admit are unscientific—last week and found that 388 viewers like the new Journal Sentinel and 2,629 don’t like it.
We did our own unscientific poll on whether those channel 6 surveys accurately reflect public opinion. The results: a full 100 percent say absolutely, positively not.
Is Cuprisin’s comment justified? Explain why or why not?
Answer by lynnlo(4176)   (Show Source):
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