Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site pyuxa.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!floyd!harpo!eagle!mhuxl!mhuxm!pyuxww!pyuxa!wetcw From: wetcw@pyuxa.UUCP (T C Wheeler) Newsgroups: net.flame Subject: Nuke Statistics Suspect Message-ID: <551@pyuxa.UUCP> Date: Fri, 3-Feb-84 16:21:21 EST Article-I.D.: pyuxa.551 Posted: Fri Feb 3 16:21:21 1984 Date-Received: Wed, 8-Feb-84 04:28:36 EST Organization: Central Services Org., Piscataway N.J. Lines: 21 Someone, I am trying hard to forget, threw a batch of statistics out that purported to show that around 75 to 80% of the population favored a nuclear freeze. Then, in a later article t, they gave the approximate text of the question that was asked in the poll. The question was ( in as close an approximation as I can ) " Would you favor a "verifiable" nuclear freeze?" Well, hell yes I would favor a verifiable nuclear freeze. Wouldn't anyone? If anything, the poll may have erred in the wrong direction. I would suspect that nearly everyone would want a freeze to be mutually verifiable. You can't use this type of poll to strengthen any position on freezes. Ask the question "Would you favor a nuclear freeze without verification?" and see the answers. I'll bet you can't get a 30% yes vote on that one. Don't quote polls that really have no meaning to them. This one has been tossed about for the past year or so and it still proves only one thing. That the American people would embrace a freeze if it was mutually verifiable. Otherwise, most of them are saying "Go pound sand until it is." T. C. Wheeler