Re: Churchill -- Man or Myth?

On Mon, 5 May 2008 20:56:42 -0400, "Don K" <dk@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>"Scour Old Cereal Bowls" <scouroldcerealbowls@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>news:Xns9A95CD2B250D8scouroldcerealbowls@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>> Supposedly, 23 percent of (take your pick) all British people or
British
>> people under 20 believe that Winston Churchill was just a myth.
>...
>
>> Doesn't that number suggest it's not a scientific survey?  The survey
goes
>> on to say that 58% believe Sherlock Holmes was real -- this is getting
even
>> more bogus sounding.  It goes on to list "Top ten fictional characters
that
>> the British public thinks are real" with #5 being Mona Lisa -- except
she
>> wasn't fictional....
>>
>> I couldn't find any debunking of this survey, but has anyone else found
>> something?
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>I don't know about you, but if I were asked stupid questions like that,
>I would be giving stupid answers just for the fun of screwing up
>the validity of the survey.
>
>Pollsters take themselves too seriously, IMO.
>
>Don 
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I've seen fools around here take them more seriously than the
pollsters.

Boron