Mark.

Somehow or other this posting arrived at a state where it's impossible
for readers to decide which part was whose contribution.

The "Fred writes:" heading is in green  and the Tom Brandt heading is
in purple. But, I didn't write the green paragraphs and Tom didn't
write the purple paragraph, I did.

I have no idea on how to undo the resulting confusion. Hope you do.

Regards.

FW

On Friday, February 14, 2003, at 03:05  PM, Mark Wonsil wrote:

> HP-3000 Systems Discussion wrote:
>> Fred writes:
>>
>>> On Friday, February 14, 2003, at 07:31  AM, Tom Brandt wrote:
>>>
>>>> The validity of on-line polls using self-selected responders: 0%
>>>
>>>  I agree with the idea that they're validity is suspect. One doesn't
>>>  need to toss the results into the trash. One can accept them without
>>>  believing that they are (even close to) perfect. The 0% you assigned
>>>  implies that they're absolutely false. Is that the result of a
>>>  1-person poll? :-)
>>
>> Beyond the case that robots are responding to the polls, which I'm
>> sure is not the case, asking about the cross-section of people who
>> are responding to the poll is to miss the point of the comparison.
>> How polling is conducted is an obviously legitimate question when
>> only one group is polled, but it becomes much less important when
>> multiple groups are polled, so long as the same methods are applied
>> universally.
>
> In US elections, you are not allowed to have campaigning within a given
> distance (200ft?) but the same is not true for AOL users.  As I have
> peered
> over the shoulder of AOL users, I see they are greeted with current
> headlines.  What effect on the poll will there be if the "voter" first
> reads
> "US Defies the Will of the UN", "Europe at odds with US on Iraq",
> "%^&@!
> Cowboy at it again", etc.
>
>> comes to that, I believe that Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld and Powell
>> should be arrested and put on trial before the Hague. Quite
>> obviously, the United States cannot claim that it is unilaterally
>> enforcing UN resolutions without the consent of the UN itself.
>
> Right after we capture Clinton, Gore and Albreit for the Kosovo
> invasion?
>
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