ENVIRONICS study --Peel Region (I think)

[The Mississauga Muse]

Sorry if I didn't put this thread in the right place.

Hey, anybody else in the Peel Region get phoned by Environics for a survey? The tele-pollster said they were doing randomly-selected residents of Brampton, Caledon and Mississauga.

Thanks.

 

[afransen]

Chances of that are pretty slim, given their usual sample sizes (under 2000).

 

[The Mississauga Muse]

Chances of that are pretty slim, given their usual sample sizes (under 2000).

Hmm.. Here's what's bizarre. Last year around this time, Environics phoned and my husband answered their short version of the 2006 survey.

This time around they phoned and I got the extended survey.

So. What are the chances of being called twice in a row? Seriously, I'd love to calculate those odds.

And what are the chances a person who just laid down two Freedom of Informations on the 2006 Environics study now gets to answer a 2007?

Next question. When you're making a tinfoil hat, you can use the cheap no-name tinfoil, right? Works just as well?

 

[Hydrogen]

I think it depends on how the tin foil hat is to be utilized. Cheap, no-name foil has broad applications; but formal functions demand name foil products.




Remember to recycle your hat after use.

 

[The Mississauga Muse]

I think it depends on how the tin foil hat is to be utilized. Cheap, no-name foil has broad applications; but formal functions demand name foil products.

Remember to recycle your hat after use.

Hmmmm... "formal functions"... not an issue since all City of Mississauga "formal functions" are by invitation only and I'm the dead skunk in the elevator so...

As for me remembering to recycle my tinfoil hat after use, I'm way ahead of you. Once I have four, I've fold them into one big one to cover my ass. (After all, I have to cover Mississauga Council...)

Thanks for the suggestion. Maybe I'll go with the more expensive industrial strength tinfoil for statutory holidays.

 

[Urban Shocker]

Why don't you make a Freedom of Information request to find out why someone who made two Freedom of Information requests about the 2006 Environics study has been selected to do an Environics study in 2007? Then, if you're denied, you can make a Freedom of Information request to find out why.

 

[The Mississauga Muse]

Why don't you make a Freedom of Information request to find out why someone who made two Freedom of Information requests about the 2006 Environics study has been selected to do an Environics study in 2007? Then, if you're denied, you can make a Freedom of Information request to find out why.

Random, babe. Luck of the draw --people selected randomly by telephone. So Environics says.

That's why some people would win 649 multi-million dollar prizes twice or big wins numerous times while I never did.

Just Random, Luck of the Draw.

You can't Freedom of Information that. You just have to believe the exemplary corporation that Environics is.

 

[Zephyr]

Scientifically random samples can be useful even with small samples. But I have my doubts about this.