[Peace-discuss] The Power of Ten

[Robert Naiman]

It doesn't mean anything unless you know what the other responses in
the poll were.

Some polls just give a few responses, because they want to classify
people as e.g. supporting the war, or opposing it.

Others allow a broad range of responses, because they're trying to get
at shades of opinion.

The answer might be 13%. That would be really good news - unless there
were other responses like "we should massively escalate," etc.

On 9/23/07, John W. <jbw292002 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I just finished watching a quiz show called "The Power of Ten", which
> follows "60 Minutes" on CBS.  Hosted by Drew Carey, the show requires the
> contestant to predict how a random sample of Americans answered a certain
> question.  The contestant's answer is given in terms of a range of
> percentages, and the correct answer must fall within that percentage range
> in order for the contestant to win.
>
> A female contestant just lost at the $100,000 level.  The question was,
> "What percentage of Americans think that we should keep our troops in Iraq
> and finish what we started?"  What would you predict the correct answer
> was?  I'll supply the answer after a few people have hazarded a guess.
>
> John Wason
>
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Robert Naiman
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