Recency and replication

A reply to Michael Brown's vigorous defence of the Recent Reading measure in the NRS and other readership surveys (in Admap, April 1994).

Readership research: recency and replication

The gulf is not so great

Neil Shepherd-Smith

This article is a reply to Michael Brown's vigorous defence of present received practice in the use of the Recent Reading measure by the NRS and other major readership surveys round the world. In this reply the author suggests that the two positions (which have sparked one of the liveliest media research controversies of recent times) have much common ground. While contesting a number of specific points in what is a highly technical issue, he concludes that the best outcome would be some further quiet exploration of...

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