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Subject: Re: program paradox: To make them better against people or other programs

Author: Graham Laight

Date: 01:00:37 07/18/00

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On July 17, 2000 at 23:04:29, Baldomero Garcia, Jr. wrote:

>On July 17, 2000 at 19:02:31, Ed Schröder wrote:
>
>>Can you elaborate a bit what is "conspicuously biased" on the questions
>>of the poll?
>>
>>Ed
>
>If it's the same poll I saw a while ago, I think he refers to the fact that
>the poll steers you towards the answers you (the poller) want to get.
>
>Baldo.

Correct!

Also, because the poll is conducted on the Rebel site, one would expect a bias
towards Rebel in the questions that ask for subjective preferences between
programs (and the poll results look to me as if they are indeed biased in this
way).

-g



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