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- From: anderson@macc.wisc.edu (Jess Anderson)
- Subject: Re: Size of LGB Vote
- Message-ID: <1992Nov16.231029.9314@macc.wisc.edu>
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- Organization: Madison Academic Computing Center, UW-Madison
- References: <1992Nov16.173734.7846@gordian.com> <1992Nov16.183905.25643@macc.wisc.edu> <1992Nov16.200709.10905@gordian.com>
- Date: Mon, 16 Nov 92 23:10:29 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov16.200709.10905@gordian.com>
- mike@gordian.com (Michael A. Thomas) writes:
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- >In article <1992Nov16.183905.25643@macc.wisc.edu>,
- >anderson@macc.wisc.edu (Jess Anderson) writes:
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- >> A few hundred well-chosen phone calls and a very well
- >> designed questionnaire instrument can indeed tell you a lot
- >> about any population you want to look at.
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- By "any population" I meant "any population."
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- >>You can, if you
- >>work at it, determine within about three percent how many
- >>closeted gay men buy "green" toilet paper or any other
- >>cockamamie statistic you want. Randomizing the sample is
- >>not difficult, but the questionnaire is *really* tough.
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- >I might buy this for uncloseted, but *closeted*?
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- The example was far-fetched to underscore "any." The added
- difficulties appear in devising the instrument, I think.
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- <> What's the point of self-restraint if you can get someone
- <> else to do it *for* you?
- <> -- Roger Klorese (rogerk@unpc.queernet.org)
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