Revised CommerceNet material

xerxes (xerxes_at_clark.net)
Sun, 21 Jul 1996 19:37:44 -0400 (EDT)

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>The CommerceNet study, funded by an industry trade group, as Ms Hoffman
>knows, received rather through review at the MIT survey methodology
>symposia last January 29-30 (see cite below).

Workshop on Internet Survey Methodology and Web Demographics. January 29-30,
1996. Cambridge, MA. Organized by. Artificial Intelligence Laboratory....
http://www.ai.mit.edu/projects/iiip/conferences/survey96/cfp.html -
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> Do not recall Ms Hoffman as being in attendance,
>although I do recall her criticism of that study, AND, her reported
>association with it as well.

>I also recall hearing that its numerous sponsors were somewhat miffed with
>the good Professor's >approach to criticism....perhaps they found it
>"incomprehensible".
>
>If the above three sentences are deemed "incomprehensible", I apologize.
>I'd be
>happy to explain them further, if any of the list regulars wish,.....
>especially in email. Some fear there is already too much unpaid promo here.
>

>On Sat, 20 Jul 1996, Donna Hoffman wrote:
>
>>
>> xerxes writes with some incomprehensible criticism of our papers:
>>
>> > The Commercenet study, which was in the field last summer or fall, was the
>> > approach that measured users "with access to the Internet"....as opposed to
>> > actual users....the figure they came out with was 22 million, if memory
>> > serves, and was widely criticized as being wildly overstated. In fact, I
>> > recall Donna Hoffman making these criticisms herself. It seems the work
>> > had been funded by a hardware industry association with an eye toward
>> > exaggeration.
>>
>>
>

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