Re: Are the Forces of Darkness on the March?

[sampere <sampere@PHYSICS.SYR.EDU>]

Can we get back to some physics?  Discussing statistics is even a stretch.

How about something about heat??  Boy, that election is really heating
up this list?  Or how about the merits of a manned mission to Mars?

Neil Tyson just gave a talk here.  All of his exciting slides were data
or pictures from satellites or robots.  Then he goes on to say that the
manned mission to Mars is necessary to 'save the intellectual level' of
the country.  Not his exact words, but you know what I mean.

Sam

Bernard Cleyet wrote:

> http://www.consortiumnews.com/2004/110604.html
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> Robert Parry, who broke many of the Iran-Contra stories in the 1980s for
> the Associated Press and Newsweek, has written a new book, Secrecy &
> Privilege: Rise of the Bush Dynasty from Watergate to Iraq.
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> Michael Edmiston wrote:
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> > David Marx said, "I like Dick Morris very much.  What he was saying is
> > that foul play was going on in the early exit polls to make it look like
> > Kerry was going to win, which might make some Republicans stay home.
> > Again, I ask why we should believe the exit polls over the actual
> > results?"
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> > (1) If the exit polls were rigged to make it look like Kerry were
> > winning, which side rigged them?  Isn't it just as easy to believe that
> > a possibility of a Kerry win would draw out the Bush supporters to make
> > sure that Bush carried their state?  Why is it assumed a projected Kerry
> > win would keep the Bush supporters home?  If I were a Kerry supporter
> > and it looked like Kerry would win without me, that might prompt me to
> > stay home.  On the other hand, if I were a Bush supporter this might
> > prompt me to vote and take my neighbor with me.
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> > (2) Dick Morris explained that properly-conducted exit polls are used to
> > help verify there was or was not voting fraud.  If the exit polls and
> > the actual results disagree, then one of them is wrong.  Which one is
> > wrong?
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> > Michael D. Edmiston, Ph.D.
> > Professor of Physics and Chemistry
> > Bluffton University
> > Bluffton, OH 45817
> > (419)-358-3270
> > edmiston@bluffton.edu