The latest magazine ad for Always pads (pictured at right) reads, “97% of women who tried Always Infinity said they’d recommend it to their friends.” Smaller print notes that these data are from a survey at Always.com — suggesting a self-selected population of women who like Always. Respondents who won’t recommend the product are dismissed as women who never like anything.
Sounds like someone’s been reading Darrell Huff’s classic book, How to Lie with Statistics!
Wow, I’m floored. Because I took that survey, and I’m one of the (apparently) 3% of women who wouldn’t recommend Infinity to others. (I don’t like them less than any other disposable pads, but I also don’t like them more — and they are more expensive than a lot of other brands.)
FTR and just to prove their asses wrong, I like plenty of menstrual products — Moon Cups, LAdy Cups, Yuuki cups, my friend Caroline’s cloth pads, cloth pads I bought from a couple of other ETsy sellers, etc. I’m also not unthrilled with the Kotex U thin liners, though I haven’t tried their pads yet. 😉
Hell I bet those other 3% were on the rag or something…
Chella, I see what you did there. 😀