Re: Educating Journalists

[Schoenhofer <schoenho@via.at>]

At 13:16 13.11.1996 -0600, you wrote:

>
>Wait a minute... does this remind anybody of an election poll done 
>earlier this century  where the Republican was supposed to win, but 
>it turned out that most of the people that could afford telephones 
>this early in their history were Republicans?  Somehow it seems very 
>unlikely to me that Collective Joe Voter even knows what a website 
>is.  How about 80% of the highly educated, computer literate people 
>that would bother to visit a newspaper website (this third one 
>excludes me) are in favor of nuclear power?  The poll should have 
>asked two questions: 1 do you favor nuclear power; 2 Do you bowl?
>
>David F. Gilmore
>Assistant Professor of Environmental Biology    0  0 
>P.O. Box 599, Dept. of Biological Sciences       __    "have a day" 
>Arkansas State University 
>State University, AR 72467
>dgilmore@navajo.astate.edu
>ph  501-972-3082    fax 501-972-2638
>
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Excellent! We are not fond of polls which start from a distorted point of
view favouring the anti-position. So we should not quote polls biased to the
opposite. It is a question of honesty.

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