Comments on: The Question of Women and Wine http://blog.winemag.com/editors/2009/04/30/the-question-of-women-and-wine/ Tue, 31 Jan 2012 15:33:38 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: DC http://blog.winemag.com/editors/2009/04/30/the-question-of-women-and-wine/comment-page-1/#comment-4270 DC Thu, 07 May 2009 15:44:38 +0000 http://blog.winemag.com/editors/2009/04/30/the-question-of-women-and-wine/#comment-4270 Although I as a Math teacher can appreciate crunching numbers and giving a statistical analysis of this situation, this study sounds like complete and utter nonesense (I would have used a differnt word here but I am going to be G rated). Just over 4 thousand in a sample set is nothing compared to a world wide population base. If you are talking about this country alone you have about 150 Million potential female wine drinkers. Let alone hundreds of millions abroad. We are talking about 1/100 of a percent of people surveyed. All who would have had to been heavily interested in wine to take the time and effort to complete this survey. You touched on this when you spoke about the skewed American numbers which reflected the 90 percentile. I feel that the American numbers are completely out of wack, but the other numbers are just as suspect. PS Despite my pessamistic view of this survey I am all for women knowing their wine!!! Although I as a Math teacher can appreciate crunching numbers and giving a statistical analysis of this situation, this study sounds like complete and utter nonesense (I would have used a differnt word here but I am going to be G rated). Just over 4 thousand in a sample set is nothing compared to a world wide population base. If you are talking about this country alone you have about 150 Million potential female wine drinkers. Let alone hundreds of millions abroad. We are talking about 1/100 of a percent of people surveyed. All who would have had to been heavily interested in wine to take the time and effort to complete this survey.
You touched on this when you spoke about the skewed American numbers which reflected the 90 percentile. I feel that the American numbers are completely out of wack, but the other numbers are just as suspect.

PS Despite my pessamistic view of this survey I am all for women knowing their wine!!!

]]> By: Tracy http://blog.winemag.com/editors/2009/04/30/the-question-of-women-and-wine/comment-page-1/#comment-4252 Tracy Thu, 30 Apr 2009 23:11:56 +0000 http://blog.winemag.com/editors/2009/04/30/the-question-of-women-and-wine/#comment-4252 I drink wine at least once a week! I drink wine at least once a week!

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