Dear Members, A friend of mine in Massachusetts alerted me to this posting. I wanted to respond to the last line of the posting that called our survey unscientific. This survey was conducted jointly by myself, Anna Greenberg, VP of Greenberg Quinlan Rosner Research (www.greenbergresearch.com) and Bill McInturff, Partner at Public Opinion Strategies (www.pos.org). Both of our firms are prominent and well respected nationally. We do not conduct unscientific surveys. This phone survey was conducted among 400 mothers of children 0-5 living in their households. Respondents were chosen randomly from a listed sample, and careful quotas were set to reflect Census bureau statistics of women age 18-45 in the state. This means that we were careful to represent women on WIC and lower income mothers, who traditionally are difficult to reach by phone. This listed sample was purchased from a sample vendor and was not supplied by formula companies. The survey has a margin of error of +/- 4.9%. You should also note that only 31 percent of the sample were formula-only mothers – 37 percent were breast feed only mothers and 32 percent were mothers who used a combination of the two. Please do not hesitate to be in touch if you have further questions about the methodology behind the survey. Anna Greenberg *********************************************** To temporarily stop your subscription: set lactnet nomail To start it again: set lactnet mail (or digest) To unsubscribe: unsubscribe lactnet All commands go to [log in to unmask] The LACTNET mailing list is powered by L-Soft's renowned LISTSERV(R) list management software together with L-Soft's LSMTP(R) mailer for lightning fast mail delivery. For more information, go to: http://www.lsoft.com/LISTSERV-powered.html