Re: How many do support the war?

"Roberto H. Alsina" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.kde.cafe
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On Wed, Apr 09 2003 at 07:27:34am -0400, dep wrote:
> begin  Uwe Thiem's  quote:
> 
> | These are subjective impressions, of course. Not exactly
> | statistically relevant. Still, makes me wonder: How many Americans
> | really support the war?
> 
> you're right that any one person's survey of those around himself or 
> herself won't produce anything very useful, for a couple of reasons 
> -- the statistical insignificance you mention; also how 
> representative the questioned sample is. for instance, here in 
> connecticut, which has two democrat senators and a congresswoman and 
> governor who would be defined as republicans only in connecticut, a 
> state that went solidly for gore, support for the war and its 
> objectives are profound and probably higher than 70 percent.

In other words, while the other guy's made up numbers are subjective and
biased and unrepresentative, your own subjective biased and unrepresentative
made up numbers are completely different.

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