Re: Spaceship One - a partial sucess.

From: Dave O'Neill (daveon_at_atomic.raz.spam.or.com)
Date: 10/09/04 

Date: Sat, 09 Oct 2004 12:53:58 GMT

"Rand Simberg" <simberg.interglobal@org.trash> wrote in message
news:416aac29.39290556@news.west.earthlink.net...
> On 8 Oct 2004 01:09:32 -0700, in a place far, far away,
> daveon@gmail.com (Dave O'Neill) made the phosphor on my monitor glow
> in such a way as to indicate that:
>
> >Well, let's look at the "sample", me and her. I'd like to go -
> >currently I couldn't pay more than about $25,000 and stay married,
> >still I'm in my 30s - the average age for the Futron survey was 50s,
> >so I expect to be able to afford a Virgin trip at the price announced
> >in that time.
> >
> >OTOH, according to Futron 50% (well 49% +/- 4.7% error) of the sample
> >stated they were not prepared to go _at any price point_, so that
> >looks like the O'Neill household is pretty representative of the
> >market as outlined by Futron.
>
> Which is utterly irrelevant, because one cannot extrapolate the
> behavior of millions from a single individual. You can continue to
> flatter yourself as somehow being representative of the market but
> that's statistically absurd, and if you based business decisions on
> that, you'd be quickly out of business.

I'm claiming no such thing Rand, but please indulge your own fantasies.

<snip silly stuff>

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