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- Path: sparky!uunet!munnari.oz.au!uniwa!DIALix!tillage!gil
- From: gil@tillage.DIALix.oz.au (Gil Hardwick)
- Newsgroups: sci.environment
- Subject: Nuclear Power and Climate Change
- Distribution: world
- Message-ID: <726037218snx@tillage.DIALix.oz.au>
- References: <svtrpg@dixie.com>
- Date: Sun, 03 Jan 93 05:00:18 GMT
- Organization: STAFF STRATEGIES - Anthropologists & Training Agents
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- In article <svtrpg@dixie.com> jgd@dixie.com writes:
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- > I see the debate to be quite similar to that on abortion. There is really
- > no middle ground and no room for compromise amongst the combatents. Our
- > leaders, presumably wiser than the public opinion under the Constitution, will
- > ultimately make a decision that will please some and piss off others.
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- You might try at deriving a few statistics from social survey method
- for yourself. It is reasonable to anticipate that around 95% of the
- population will lie within two standard deviations of your compromise,
- and 68% within one standard deviation.
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- If I were a politician even getting 50% of the primary vote regularly
- would ensure my lifelong political career as an outstanding leader and
- statesman.
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- Yes, I agree, all this hysterical propaganda and religious fervour
- depending on the emotional shock value of misinformation is doing us
- no favour whatever. We have very significant economic developments
- here in our country as well, waiting for the *fog* to clear.
-
- Gil
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