--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, new.morning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > shempmcgurk wrote: > > >In light of the fact that only 19 of 100 contacted had seen the > > >movie, do you think it was fair of the AP to lead with: "The > > >nation's top climate scientists are giving 'An Inconvenient > > >Truth,' Al Gore's documentary on global warming, five stars for > > >accuracy." ? > > I am not sure I yet understand what occurred.
Why don't you read the article? > There are clearly more than 100 climate scientists in the US / > world. However, not all of the climate scientists in the U.S. (not "the world"--"the nation" refers to the U.S. specifically) would be considered the *top* climate scientists," you see. > I have heard the figure 10,000 used. Though perhaps not explicitly > stated in the article, its strongly implied that these 100 > scientists contacted were a sample of the 10,000 (or so) qualified > scientists. No, actually what was implied was that these 100 were the *top 100* climate scientists in the U.S. The question you want to be asking, I think, is, Who decided which were the top 100? > That 19 of the 100 in the sample responded is pretty typical. Most > research, marketing and political samples have high non-respondent > rates. Its an issue, but not an unsurmountable problem. Particllary > if the sample size was targeted at being larger than necessary, to > account for non-respondents. Actually, if you read the article, what you'll find is that AP doesn't specify how many of the 100 responded. The 19 cited are those who had either read the book or seen the movie and were willing to comment to AP; AP didn't consider any other responses. It *does* say (if you read the article) that *most* of the scientists it contacted had *not* read the book or seen the movie. So it wasn't that 81 of the 100 scientists didn't respond, but that only 19 of the respondees were qualified to comment. > Did all 19 that did respond support Gore's main points? Again, it's not all who responded, but all who had seen the movie or read the book and were willing to comment to AP (19 in number). Of the 19 who had seen the movie or read the book and were willing to comment, all, according to AP, were in agreement that Gore had made no serious mistakes in the science. ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Check out the new improvements in Yahoo! Groups email. http://us.click.yahoo.com/6pRQfA/fOaOAA/yQLSAA/UlWolB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
