Path: utzoo!utgpu!attcan!uunet!wor-mein!pete
From: pete@wor-mein.UUCP (Pete Turner)
Newsgroups: comp.edu
Subject: Re: CAN WE KNOW SO LITTLE?    Old: Re: Lawsuits (and countersuits)
Message-ID: <1388@wor-mein.UUCP>
Date: 4 Aug 88 15:10:15 GMT
References: <12230@agate.BERKELEY.EDU> <12260@agate.BERKELEY.EDU> <24171@teknowledge-vaxc.ARPA> <378@cullsj.UUCP>
Reply-To: pete@wor-mein.UUCP (Pete Turner)
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In article <378@cullsj.UUCP> gupta@cullsj.UUCP (Yogesh Gupta) writes:
>In article <24171@teknowledge-vaxc.ARPA>, wlieberm@teknowledge-vaxc.ARPA (William Lieberman) writes:
>> I read somewhere today that the geography survey we have been discussing:
>> the USA placed only ahead of Italy and Mexico. There were around 10 or 11
>> countries surveyed (the usual Western industrialized countries. [Is Mexico
>> industrialized?])
>
>It is interesting that the survey contained more questions about
>finding West European countries than countries in North America
>(I know there aren't that many to ask about in N. America :-).
>But, doesn't that give an edge to a West European?  If that is
>the case, how does one come up with a 'fair' survey?
>

I hate to say it, but I think we could restrict the survey to N. America 
(maybe states in the U.S.?) and come up with results that are no less 
unsettling.

Just an idle thought.


Pete