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From:
Darren Duncan
Date:
January 1, 2011 00:32
Subject:
Re: Questions for Survey about Perl
Message ID:
4D1EE683.1090300@darrenduncan.net
Richard Hainsworth wrote:
> Moreover, a survey should be testing perceptions, even if the 
> perceptions contradict what some feel are facts. It sometimes pays to be 
> agnostic about what can be counted as a fact to learn how other people 
> think. Eg., in the real world there are those who perceive as fact the 
> timeline of the history of life as set out in the Old Testament of the 
> Bible, and there are those that look to other mechanisms for testing 
> timeline theories, such as a the geological record. Dont want to start a 
> religious war, just wanting to indicate that a survey can be useful if 
> worded in a value-free manner.

There are also those who perceive as fact that the biblical and geological 
timelines are not mutually exclusive and are both plausible. -- Darren Duncan
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