"Eric F. Richards" wrote in message
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"David Eduardo" wrote:
"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 know, you'd have more credibility if you'd ever admit to being
wrong. I know, you being wrong doesn't exist in your universe.
I certainly will accept that not everyone outside research circles knows
terms of the trade. "Contact" is not "recruit." A contact is an initial
exchange with a potential recruit. A potential does not become a recruit
until both sides accept, at which point the person "is recruited" and "in
sample."
http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=recruitment
4. To enroll or seek to enroll
Absolutely. You are not enrolled untill you have gone through the
questioonnaire, including phone verification, demographic verification and
media houshold question.
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.
I know what I was told when I called to ask why the automatic
registration didn't go through, when the web page told me I didn't
know my own phone number. The woman read off my name, address, all
the other info, and asked if the phone number was mine. I said it
was, but I never use it for voice.
Unless you had completed th eon line form, and the filters on it had all
come up with a "yes" you were NOT recruited.
She said then that because it wasn't my primary number, I couldn't
participate. She *could* have been just saying what she was trained
to say, regardless of the reason, but given how the whole conversation
went I tend to take her statement at face value.
The reason, per Arbitron, is to keep people from giving the letters to other
people who would call or log in and purport to be the participant, despte
being in the wrong geographic area or having some other exclusion.
I certainly trust what she said over your mindless spin.
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.
Well, then, tell them all a humorous story when you start out, about
the usenet idiot who thinks that a letter asking him to participate in
a survey, supplying him with a unique ID to get onto the web site, is
a recruitment letter -- I'm sure they'll all share a laugh with you.
Itīs a "contact letter" to warm up POTENTIAL recruits for the recruiting
process.