I agree that the statistics you come up with depend largely on the questions you ask. Witness the difference in responses between asking if someone is "pro life" or if they want to see Roe v. Wade overturned.
The nice thing about the numbers I tend to cite (see the CRS report) are that they include a methodology so you can see what questions they ask and you can decide on the wisdom of those questions yourself. That's now research is supposed to be done. Judah On Mon, Jun 8, 2009 at 10:47 AM, Gruss Gott<[email protected]> wrote: > >> Judah wrote: >> I am glad, however, that you are finally reading something with >> numbers in it as opposed to hand waving and personal stories. > > Well, you'll laugh, but my day job is coming up with those numbers. > > Course numbers are based on questions. > > And the number of *right* questions that need to be asked to define a > picture is always unknown. > > So I would say it's not the numbers that make you smart, but the > wisdom to ask the right questions. > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Want to reach the ColdFusion community with something they want? Let them know on the House of Fusion mailing lists Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:298162 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
