From: Lee Daniel Crocker (lee@piclab.com)
Date: Thu Jan 30 2003 - 12:13:04 MST
> (Dehede011@aol.com <Dehede011@aol.com>):
> ...But let a poll be published saying that over 80% of Europeans
> think we are a threat to world peace and Dr. Broderick is on that
> factoid like a chicken on a kernel of corn.
Polls like this don't even rise to the level of "factoid"; they
don't resemble facts in any way. You might call them "opinionoids",
because while they superficially look like the opinions of a group
of people, there's no attempt at accurate sampling or other controls,
so they aren't quite real opinions either.
-- Lee Daniel Crocker <lee@piclab.com> <http://www.piclab.com/lee/> "All inventions or works of authorship original to me, herein and past, are placed irrevocably in the public domain, and may be used or modified for any purpose, without permission, attribution, or notification."--LDC
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