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Christine Betzold <[log in to unmask]>
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Sat, 30 Dec 2000 22:37:18 EST
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Oops!   I just mostly wanted to make sure no one would read it wrong and
worse yet vote incorrectly.  It is misleading.  I personally had to read it 3
times to make sure I was voting accurately.   So, you can see why I would
think that some one else had read it incorrectly when I looked at it and the
statistics were  reversed.  Chris

>.This is a good example of how the
wording of a question can skew the results.  If we, the experts.
read it wrong, how many lay people read it correctly?

>  At 04:16 PM 12/30/00 EST, you wrote:
>  >I think that a previous poster read the vote incorrectly.  Below is the
>  >question and the respones.   It looks like 75% DO NOT believe it is wrong
> to
>  >nurse an child older than 2.             Chris BEtzold NP
>
>  When Anne Grider sent her post to Lactnet about the poll it *was* 75%
>  voting that it was wrong to be nursing a child past 2 years.  Within a few
>  hours of her posting the numbers began to change and by yesterday evening
>  it had reversed.
>

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