Re: Poll for you to vote to save Brookhaven Lab

["Sandy Perle" <sandyfl@earthlink.net>]

Michael Mokrzycki said:

> However, the current results might say something about the 
> ability of "pro-nukes" to mobilize online ...

Not necessarily. It just reflects the mood of those who log on. Your 
assumption is that the poll only reflects the "opinions" of those who 
have been motivated to log on and cast their vote, due to the "pro-
nuke" lobby (appears that you have included Radsafe in this). If 
that is true, then the same can be said for any poll that is not done 
in a scientific method, which requires complete randomness and 
polls all segments of the populations. I do agree that the results of 
any poll such as this is meaningless, from a statistical sense. 
However, it does provide a count of those interested in casting their 
opinion. The results should not be used to make decisions on a 
topic though.

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