jj@alice.UUCP (04/10/85)
I'm not going to bother to reply to Charlie Perkins on a point by point basis because there's no point in replying to something that is utterly specious. (i.e. reply will only encourage more sophistry.) It's unfortunate that Mr. Perkins doesn't seem to understand the methodology of the particular questionaire, and that he's unable to follow instructions and take things at face value. His comments on being called "conservative, liberal, etc" are utter nonsense in view of the instructions, and his comments as to what constitutes "taking up arms" even worse. (For those of you who go back and look, no I didn't specify. ON PURPOSE!) If this questionaire starts a debate (Over the questionaire, rather than the results, whatever they turn out to be) I shall simply unsubscribe and toss the whole thing. Now that Mr. Perkins has deliberately sabotoged the questionaire, I will have to keep two sets of data, one with an unprejudiced set or replies, and one that has been prejudicially sabotaged by Mr. Perkins. Enough said. One of the prime considerations of taking a poll is that of fairness and lack of prejudice. Mr. Perkins COULD have waited until next week and THEN complained. He did not, and as a result has cast suspicion on all data gathered from the time of his posting onward. -- TEDDY BEARS NEED SECURITY BLANKETS, WRAP YOURS TODAY! "I think I'm going to regret this!" ihnp4!icarus!jj