From: Lee Daniel Crocker (lcrocker@mercury.colossus.net)
Date: Sun Dec 14 1997 - 23:55:42 MST
> While this is hardly a significant statistical pool,...
Even if you got 1000 responses, it would not be significant
because it's a self-selected sample. I'd like to think most
Extropians know at least enough math to realize that any
such poll of a mailing list cannot possibly generate useful
information for any purpose, and I respectfully suggest
that others refrain from doing so in the future.
To further show the futility of such a poll, I will point
out that I, personally, will not answer your question either
way, because it is likely to be detrimental to my own
interests to do so. Announcing that I have no gun invites
thieves; announcing that I do invites cops (presuming for
the moment that there's a difference).
-- Lee Daniel Crocker <lee@piclab.com> <http://www.piclab.com/lcrocker.html> "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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