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Yeah, I think I'll throw $5 a charity's way today. It's my duty.

Good thing you got at these things. 

Were you an editor before?

I might like the comics better.

I liked Star Wars sets myself, and loved playing LEGO Island on PC, but I think I had more K'Nex. I do really want to see that LEGO Movie, though.

It might be interesting to look into how The Daily Sentinel here compares with The Dallas Morning News in terms of comic strips it runs. 

Have you ever seen those Onion comic strips that mock real comic strips?

Thanks for the suggestion!

The fair is for food! I love when the State Fair is in Texas. Too bad I won't be able to go again until this October.

That is an interesting one. The Dems in HoC are pretty awful people, or at least the main character is. 

Thanks, man! Good idea.

And oh, I wouldn't be watching an edited version, I'd be focusing on the stuff that would be edited if GoT weren't on HBO hehe. I'd probably just skip right to it, since that research question would only be asking about the naughty parts. 

Focus groups are usually a form of pilot testing and then more focus groups in larger numbers are done. You can mix it with surveys to have both quantitave (strictly numbers/set list of responses) and qualitative (more in-depth and personal responses) analyses. Samples in good research are representative of the population being studied, more is always better, and the results are extrapolated from there. 

You can ask what's called a convenience sample, which is what you're talking about, where you just ask the easiest people to get, but most researchers try to get a large sample that jives with the makeup of the larger community they're trying to study. I.e. I'm never gonna get all of SFA to respond to a focus group request, but say a quarter each of the campus was a certain type of person. I'd have four people in my focus group who fit into each category for my pilot study, and try to find as many people as I could for focus groups from there that jive with the makeup of the community.

Not an exact science, but you can get some interesting results that are consistent with the greater population based on your sample groups. 

Small, vocal minorities can affect content on a station if they're the only ones sending letters, but that's not really something research deals with; a good researcher in MCM would try to get a representative sample beyond a loud minority or throw stuff out if they can't find a good sample. 

I liked the Scott Pilgrim movie as an action movie, but thought it was just ok as a comedy, and I understood the references. I'm weird though, Shaun of the Dead is my least favorite of the Cornetto trilogy. 

Maybe my research project should be a content analysis of nudity vs. violence in GoT ...

I assume they went for the latter, but it sounds waaay more like the former to me.