SK>While, as Dan says, qualitative analyses are becoming "accepted" in
SK>education, the point that it really doesn't _prove_ anything
SK>conclusively seems to escape him. I wonder if only those of us with
SK>training in math, sciences and logic can appreciate this position?
Perhaps...  It certainly seems hard to make the point,
doesn't it?  When I look around and see how literally many
people take the pronouncements of such surveys, especially
now in the area of politics where each side takes the same
"facts" and uses them to support opposing positions, it
makes me worry about how easy it is for the public at large
to be manipulated.  Business, countries, military, all do
this, and we seem ill-prepared to deal with this approach
on their parts.  It's easy to see why Orson Wells was able
to convince people that the Martians had landed, lo those
many years ago!                     ;-)
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