>Has anyone run their psychosocial simulators on what happens when Osama >claims responsibility? Would he try this? What numbers do you get for >the US pop's reaction?
According to a friend from Ft.Meade, the Oyster (a massive parallel machine) is now at point 96, which means that it can emulate 96% of US population with accuracy > 0.9 Current results indicate that in the case of osamming the shuttle there will be no change in those 42% who oppose the war, only a slight improvement of fervor in the 37% of those who approve, and gaining some 3% of the undecided. Moving from 37% to 40% is usually not considered worthwhile, especially since gullibility is already receding, and there is a 40% risk for the opposite conversion in 4% of the undecided.
