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**traiffhetl** · 08-12-2010, 01:35 PM

No, I did say that I couldn't see any reference to the detail of the poll (although I may have missed it in my reading). I prefer to know a bit about the poll before taking its findings as gospel, eg how many people were surveyed? Where were they surveyed etc? I'm sure if you polled 1 person in central Kabul and that person agreed with the premise, then you'd have a poll that shows that 100% of people support it ... it's hardly representative though, hence the desire to know more about the qualitative context.

Even assuming the poll was objective in it´s questions, it remains a distortion of facts.

All one has to do is to check the pro´s and contras with respect to the total population of the countries involved in the poll.
With, fi, 5 million Jordanians against 238 Million Indonesians, the picture changes dramatically.

One should also read the small print in the poll sum-ups (based on muslims only)

08-12-2010, 01:35 PM	#33
traiffhetl Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 406 Senior Member	No, I did say that I couldn't see any reference to the detail of the poll (although I may have missed it in my reading). I prefer to know a bit about the poll before taking its findings as gospel, eg how many people were surveyed? Where were they surveyed etc? I'm sure if you polled 1 person in central Kabul and that person agreed with the premise, then you'd have a poll that shows that 100% of people support it ... it's hardly representative though, hence the desire to know more about the qualitative context. Even assuming the poll was objective in it´s questions, it remains a distortion of facts. All one has to do is to check the pro´s and contras with respect to the total population of the countries involved in the poll. With, fi, 5 million Jordanians against 238 Million Indonesians, the picture changes dramatically. One should also read the small print in the poll sum-ups (based on muslims only)
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