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The author reacts to comments made to his article. Perhaps Professor C. Roseman has overstated his case a bit when he asserts that three aspects of the author's paper may have been "quite misleading." Perhaps Roseman's concern about the theory of stepwise regression may be valid, but the author is happy to be able to set his mind at ease about the real world evidence with which he dealt. Perhaps Roseman has fallen into the beguiling trap of confusing statistical association with cause-and-effect explanation. Certainly population continued to increase in many resort areas during the 1970s, but one must entertain serious doubts about anyone who tries to ex- plain population increase by counting the number of empty houses.