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Personal Interviews or Mail Panels?

William F. O'Dell

Journal of Marketing · 1962 · Volume 26 · Issue 4

DOI: 10.1177/002224296202600407

Abstract

Blind allegiance to a particular marketing research technique is frequently the cause of survey inefficiency. According to Mr. O'Dell, the never deviating adherence of many practitioners to the mail panel or a rigorous probability sample leads to waste and excessively costly survey data. He presents some new, objective findings here, to aid the researcher in selecting the most efficient data-gathering method.

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