Abd ul-Rahman Lomax <[email protected]> wrote:
> You could do a petition like that on cold fusion and might still find a > majority of "professional scientists" who think that cold fusion was > rejected long ago. Answers that you get can depend on the questions asked, > and asking people for opinions outside their areas of expertise is asking > for garbage. > Exactly! Right, right, right. To reach a valid conclusion you would have add qualifying questions such as: "Have you read 3 or more papers on cold fusion in the last 5 years?" If the answer is no, I would toss out the rest of the questionnaire. I would be tempted to add a few multiple choice questions such as: M. C. H. McKubre of SRI is known for using what type of calorimeter: A. Seebeck. B. Mass flow. C. An ice calorimeter. D. Davis-Besse. - Jed
