[Peace-discuss] polls

[Alfred Kagan]

Thanks to Ricky and Carl for their info on the Wash. Post poll.  I am 
not a statistician, but I have a real skepticism about polls in 
general.  I have never been called to answer these kinds of questions 
and I wonder how many AWARE people have been called.  OK, they only 
survey 1000 or so people but it that truly scientific and valid?

If other things were equal,would anti-war people be called in their 
true proportion to the population at large?  For example, are blacks 
and Latinos called in their correct proportion?  Are low income 
people called in correct proportion (some may not have phones). 
Questions.
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Al Kagan
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