> -----Original Message----- > From: Mike Lee [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > Oh great. They asked 1,220 people; not much given that > Pakistan has a > > population of approx. 150 million. I'd make a hell of a lot > > of reservations > > before declaring that 65% of a country's population consists > > of supporters > > of Osama bin Laden, based on such a small poll. > > And while you're googling for "Muslim majority Osama bad > naughty" why don't you google for "statistics basics." > >
Umm, so just what was it that turned this lying, murdering pack of muslim assholes into such perfect poll subjects? Quote all the statistics basics you like, but I would have thought that we were all aware of the vagaries of polls at the best of times, let alone on a subject such as this. Just what questions were asked, by whom, and of whom? And what was their agenda? It isn't all down to sample sizes you know. How many muslims think OBL is a nice guy? How many want to destroy the West? How many are wife-beating crazed fanatics? Dare say it varies from day to day and place to place. Does Mike care what the real answer is anyway? I get the feeling he doesn't. The only number we can quote with any confidence is : not all of them. Its been interesting though. I have difficulty getting inside the head of someone that could think so little of individuals that they could fly a plane into a building full of people who had nothing more in common than being (mostly) born in the same country. How could a person make such an outrageous leap of morality that they could think that these individuals deserved to die just cos they were Americans? Seemed so alien that an apparently intelligent person (as some of the hijackers were) could hold such thoughts in their head and still be considered sane. So thanks Mike, your input has helped me glimpse how such people think. Andrew _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
