On Monday, September 21, 2015 at 6:54:49 PM UTC-4, Boron Elgar wrote:
> On Mon, 21 Sep 2015 10:09:29 -0700 (PDT), Cindy Hamilton
> > wrote:
>
> >On Sunday, September 20, 2015 at 2:42:31 PM UTC-4, Brooklyn1 wrote:
> >
> >> I don't know anyone who doesn't love coconut cream
> >> pie... I love coconut cream pie but I love coconut custard pie more...
> >
> >And here's the results of a survey of people's favorite pies.
> >
> ><http://www.epicurious.com/archive/blogs/editor/2008/04/americas-favori.html>
> >
> >I see it's a few years old, but I can't imagine a sea change in people's
> >taste in pies in that amount of time.
> >
> >Cindy Hamilton
>
>
> I have tried to track down the sample composition and methodology used
> for this study, as either could influence the results.
>
> Best I can find is that it was started January 2nd 2008, and the
> report issued in March of 2008.
>
> That date made me a tad suspicious of pumpkin coming in 2nd. Might
> have been influenced by the proximity of the holidays, as the other
> ranks might have been, too.
>
> And folks were asked to pick their 3 favorites. Again, without looking
> at the data it is hard to know how reliable the ranks and percentages
> are, but such questions are often asked by 1st, 2nd, 3rd rank and then
> combined in various ways to see differences.

Well, yeah. npr.org also had a self-selected survey, which I discounted
on the basis of sample bias.

Cindy Hamilton