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From: daf@ccice6.UUCP (David Fader)
Newsgroups: net.abortion
Subject: Re: Statistics
Message-ID: <335@ccice6.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 6-Feb-85 12:23:53 EST
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Posted: Wed Feb  6 12:23:53 1985
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> >My polls show that most people that were asked by me (over 70%)
> >would favor an abortion prohibiting law except in cases of severe
> >birth defects (e.g. a condition where the infant is born with no brain),
> >danger to the mother's life,incest and rape.

> But there's one little problem you seem to be overlooking.  What did you do,
> go out and ask your friends?  Do you find it hard to believe that you and
> your friends might share similar political views? What *method* did you use
> to make this a valid poll?

Dear Dragon.
No, I asked people who I thought would be opposed to abortion.
My mehod was to ask people. Do you have another method?

> If you want to say that 70% of your friends oppose abortion, fine,

Maybe you express yourself incorrectly, I usually don't.
If I wanted to or meant to refer to my friends I would have.
Perhaps you should respond to what I said rather than reading
between the lines and putting words in my mouth.

> but if you're going to try to generalize from that to
> the general public, back it up with a valid method.

More stupid assumptions. I never mentioned general public.
I suggest you read my article again, preferably with
the help of a person who understands English.

-- 
The Watcher
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