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- From: svoboda@rtsg.mot.com (David Svoboda)
- Subject: Re: SURVEY -- PLEASE PARTICIPATE!
- Message-ID: <1992Nov22.235321.14225@rtsg.mot.com>
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- Organization: Motorola Inc., Cellular Infrastructure Group
- References: <BxzGKM.M2C@unix.amherst.edu>
- Date: Sun, 22 Nov 1992 23:53:21 GMT
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- In article <BxzGKM.M2C@unix.amherst.edu> nrmendel@unix.amherst.edu (NATHANIEL ROBERT MENDELL) writes:
- |
- |Some of you may remember that I am writing a thesis for the History Department
- |here at Amherst College on our favorite subject, motorcycles. It looks like
- |I'll be comparing the popular conception of bikers with the profile I get
- |from this survey. Your participation is very important, and please send me
- |addresses of riders who could fill out the survey but do not have access to the
- |network.
-
- Hmmm. Methinks that if you want a reasonable cross-section of bikers, you have
- come to the wrong place. Most of the moto-geeks, er, I mean, uh, Doomie-Dweebs,
- er, uh, most of US here are either computer professionals or students, which
- certainly would give a skew to your results. I suspect your results would also
- be suspect due to the fact that you are soliciting for voluntary responses, and
- by the very idependent nature of cycling, that may not represent much of
- a sample. Understand?
-
- Dave Svoboda (svoboda@void.rtsg.mot.com) | "I just can't take
- 90 Concours 1000 (Mmmmmmmmmm!) | this weird shit
- 84 RZ 350 (Ring Ding) (Woops!) | before breakfast!"
- AMA 583905 DoD #0330 COG 939 (Chicago) | -- Evo Woman
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