Re: USA Today poll on Library Internet Filtering (fwd)

On Tue, 28 Apr 1998, Bob Stock <bstock[_at_]ucla.edu> wrote:
>
> As of April 28, at 8:27 p.m. ET, the voting is as follows:
>
> 60.9% no filtering
> 13.7% filtering for kids' computers
> 22.2% filtering for all computers
> 3.1% no Internet access at all

And what am I to infer from this if the average age of participants in the poll is 13 years of age? Anybody who believes that a voluntary poll done on a Web site in the Internet is even marginally representative of a random sampling of the population at large is naive.

Trying to recall why I even bothered to approve the original posting...

B^(

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