No, it's not just you. Whenever I see any survey results which support the people who commissioned the survey I am suspicious. For that matter, I'm suspicious of any poll which samples a minute percentage of the population, the sort which proclaim that the average household only contains 6 books, based on a sample of only a thousand out of 20 million or so.
Perhaps someone did actually look at Roald Dahl's book sales, and he sold more than any other children's author. OK, that would show something (although not necessarily how popular he is with the target audience). But no one got my opinion on the authors I liked as a child, nor that of anyone I know about. Nor did anyone I know of vote on the most popular Doctor. So how much those poll results are actually worth is, as far as I'm concerned, very dubious.
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Date: 2007-11-10 07:23 pm (UTC)Perhaps someone did actually look at Roald Dahl's book sales, and he sold more than any other children's author. OK, that would show something (although not necessarily how popular he is with the target audience). But no one got my opinion on the authors I liked as a child, nor that of anyone I know about. Nor did anyone I know of vote on the most popular Doctor. So how much those poll results are actually worth is, as far as I'm concerned, very dubious.