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From: svaa@ciberpiula.net (svaa)
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Subject: Re: Help with Research
Date: 20 Feb 2005 14:05:14 -0800
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This may be a amusing game, but I hope you don't pretend get any
scientific result from such "survey".

One of the most important thing in stadistics is a random sample. The
only thing you will get is

"The x% of people that have read, and decided to spend some time
answering this survey say..."

The real result of this survey is 

In a sample of comp.lang.ada:
don't know/don't answer/have't read  99.99%
Result A 0.005%
Result B 0.005%


The American Psychological Association must be an amateur association
if they accept a web survey. If they are serious, don't  present it,
they will laught at you.