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Old 12-01-2012, 12:48 PM
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Originally Posted by zonerboy View Post
Dear Mack,
In your original post you make some very unflattering assessments of residents of The Villages. These, you say, are based on your observations and characterizations of the nature of posts on TOTV over a period of time. You claim validity for your conclusions because you are only doing exactly what TV and radio stations do, ie. making observations of a small group and projectiing the results onto the larger group as a whole.
IMHO, professional pollsters go to great lengths to insure their sample group matches the overall group in every significant way (age, ethnicity, income levels, etc., etc., etc.). That way the sample group can be called a "representative sample" and their predictions or conclusions can be considered to have a degree of reliability.
Since YOU are the one making the unpleasant characterizations here, the burden of proof is on YOU to show that those posting on this site are representative of Villagers as a whole. Otherwise your conclusions have no more validity than personal bias.

As for me, I have many friends and acquaintances here in the Villages and the great majority have never even heard of TOTV, let alone post their opinions here. Guess they're just too busy having fun.
This is very similar to what I was going to post. I have yet to meet anyone who posts here. I have asked. Therefore if your comments are based solely on comments on TOTV, then you are way off.

Unfortunately you are simply needing to ruffle some feathers..don't know why. Only you know why. You apparently enjoy displaying nasty opinions. Only people who are not happy with their situation would post all of this negativity. I do hope that happiness comes your way. I believe that everyone here hopes the same for you.