"Eric F. Richards" wrote in message
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"David Eduardo" wrote:



[...] Therefore, it
is not recruitment, only a set up or staging to enhance the likelihood
that
the person will be able to be contacted for recruitment.


Recruitment never implies acceptance.

Sure it does. You are not recruited until both sides agree. Until then, you
are a prospect.

You can spin this however you want, but they solicited my input, by
letter (in direct contradiction to your statements) and the phone
number mismatch caused them to drop the solicitation -- even though
every other fact matched, and it was, after all, my number. It's just
not connected to a phone, that's all.

You do not know that, since the phone caused you to NOT be recruited
immediately. You might not have been in the desired quotas, for example, on
age, sex, ethnicity or location. You do not know.

Spin as hard as you want -- it just shows how far out of touch with
the actual listening public you are.

I am actually writing this from Columbia, MD, where I will be spending the
week at Arbitron discussing, among other things, methodology issues with the
designer of the diary sample frame. I do this many times a year. I have even
done work for Arbitron in Mexico, training new subscribers on using the data
and understanding it.