In a message dated 4/26/03 8:50:54 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
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> 1,400,000 total surveys mailed by Ross in 2000.
>
> 31 percent, response rate from mothers who received the survey.
>
>

How can these statistics be used with any reliability at all?
       For one thing, they are marketing data. For another, they only survey
white, black, and Hispanic people. Finally, their response rate is awful.
       warmly,
Nikki Lee RN, MSN, Mother of 2, IBCLC, CIMI, CCE, craniosacral therapy
Adjunct faculty, Union Institute and University, Maternal and Child Health:
Lactation Consulting
Supporting the WHO Code and the Mother Friendly Childbirth Initiative

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