> OK, here's the tally as of 8:30 pm EST, Monday, Dec 15th.
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> Lee Daniel Crocker is right that as a self appointed sampling, this
> survey is hardly "statistically valid" in that it only applies to
> subscribers to the list, but only as a representation of those that
> may share extropian values but are not subscribers.
Not even that. You have no reason to believe that the subscribers
who respond are representative of those subscribers who don't.
That they chose to respond to such a poll is a significant
differentiating fact.
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