Date: Wed, 14 May 2003 22:16:19 -0400
From: Kit Mason <kit at hers.com>
To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Skewing the curve
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>

Eric Jablow wrote:
> On Wednesday, May 14, 2003, at 02:13 PM, Michael Walsh wrote:
>
>>"Time Out New York readers are single, affluent, educated
>>professionals =
>><begin bold> that purchase 18 books a year!" <bold off>
>>
> Time Out, New York, and the other fancy-shmancy New York magazines for
> the
> rich have as their target audiences the shallow and morally deficient.
> People with
> more money than sense.  Newage types.  Astrology, Botox, and Clubs.
>
> They buy books so they can say they bought them, not because they will
> read them.
>
> New York Magazine hasn't been readable since Mary Ann Madden left.

That's a great deal of generalization to come from a very small amount
of information.  I haven't noticed any particular economic bias in terms
of interest in astrology or club membership, though the clubs differ
with different economic/sociological/professional/ethnic associations.
As for botox, according to what I understand from my cousin the plastic
surgeon, it's designed for less-affluent people, not necessarily the
wealthy, since it is injections, and far less costly than actual
surgery.  I assume you've taken a proper statistical sample, corrected
for social variances and economic status, concerning each of these
issues in order to reach your conclusions?

Kit