Peter Borst wrote: "But beyond that, survey response is skewed by lack of response from key demographics and over-response from other people who just want to be heard by somebody. To me, this skew destroys most of the potential value of the survey data."

Which ties directly to what I have said for a long time, which is the percentage of Winterloss reported by the BIP is not the National Winterloss, it's the percentage of loss of people who fill out surveys, specifically those who like to fill out BIP surveys. Whatever that means.

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