Re: Harris Poll Finds Mysteries, Thrillers Edge Out Romance Novels

From: "Brenna Lyons" 
>From a friend that took the poll, it was skewed to find the results it
>did. If a book is cross-genre, for instance, they asked specifically
>for you to qualify it as the cross instead of as romance. They only
>wanted contemporary romance counted as romance, from what she told me.
>Knowing that, I can't take the poll seriously. A better way to do it
>would have been to allow you to choose every genre and take that into
>account, but that's what they chose to do.
>
>Brenna
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Brenna,

Thank you for that valuable information. It really does underline points I have made about not trusting any statistics, but understanding exactly how they are put together. Even then it is rare to get an insight like the one you have given the list. It is a reminder of how easy it is to skew and manipulate.

Joseph

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