Re: IRAQ: RE: Tim May calls for nuking of D.C.

From: Cory Przybyla (recherchetenet@yahoo.com)
Date: Thu Feb 20 2003 - 00:27:08 MST

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    --- Alejandro Dubrovsky <s328940@student.uq.edu.au>
    wrote:
    > from
    >
    http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2003/02/04/1044318597799.html
    >
    > The Gallup International survey, released on
    > Tuesday, found 68 per cent
    > of Australians backed some sort of military action
    > against Iraq.

    Does anyone have numbers on approximately how many
    polls, that would by nature have to take in a random
    sampling of the populace...lets use the US here...are
    done each day (average of course)? And an average
    number of those polled for each issue? I find myself
    curious that so many polls represent the American
    attitude (they sure have enough come election time),
    yet neither I, nor anyone I know well enough to hear
    if they received a poll some day, have ever received
    one. I'm excluding favorite radio station phone
    calls, since oddly almost everyone I know gets those
    at some time.

    Perhaps if anyone on the list has received them, and
    has anyone received many? My initial thoughts are
    that I'm not experiencing a statistical anomoly, but
    that the polls seem to go to certain people more
    consistently than others. I'm not quite sure what the
    standard is though. Registered voters? Well no,
    everyone else in my family is one and most of my
    friends as well. Taxpayers or citizens is definetely
    not it, since everyone I refer to is both. Perhaps
    the same lists telemarketers get? But I receive a
    number of calls each day as do my family members,
    again. So what is it? Or is it just my imagination,
    and it's statistically lower that I'd know anyone who
    received one than I suspected?

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