06-03-2008, 12:12 PM
The conclusion makes sense. I'm thinkin' the number is a typo.
Edit: Not a typo. The difference is that the study's an anthropological study, not a survey. So while the sample is not wide, the subjects are studied in great detail for a number of months. I think the info is good--it certainly is what I have noticed in myself and among a number of my friends. I really have to concentrate to get through long news stories and I no longer read magazines cover-to-cover. I dropped Yahoo as my web portal because I got tired of the headline snippets--I don't think you can learn much from the crawl at the bottom of the screen. I am seriously trying to stay away from scattershot information. It's not helpful to me.
What the AP's trying to find out is how to deliver the news effectively. They're hitting the target, but it's not being absorbed.
Edit #2: Anyone who wants to check out the method, check here. It's a pdf of the summary of the method and conclusions.
http://www.ap.org/newmodel.pdf
Edit: Not a typo. The difference is that the study's an anthropological study, not a survey. So while the sample is not wide, the subjects are studied in great detail for a number of months. I think the info is good--it certainly is what I have noticed in myself and among a number of my friends. I really have to concentrate to get through long news stories and I no longer read magazines cover-to-cover. I dropped Yahoo as my web portal because I got tired of the headline snippets--I don't think you can learn much from the crawl at the bottom of the screen. I am seriously trying to stay away from scattershot information. It's not helpful to me.
What the AP's trying to find out is how to deliver the news effectively. They're hitting the target, but it's not being absorbed.
Edit #2: Anyone who wants to check out the method, check here. It's a pdf of the summary of the method and conclusions.
http://www.ap.org/newmodel.pdf