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Re: Attitudes toward the Korean War
At 06:23 PM 8/1/01 -0400, Janet Valentine wrote:
As a small example: In Spring 1952, 4,585 male college students at 11
universities were surveyed. Sixty-three percent of them responded that
they sometimes or very often felt that the war wasn't worth fighting.
Thirty-seven percent didn't think that what was being fought for had any
personal significance for them. Fifty-two percent were "neutral" or
against US foreign policy in Korea. The ambivalence of this group
reflects, I think, the popular ambivalence toward the war.
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Janet, please use Plain Text in the future, as it is most difficult to
respond to your fancy-font stuff.
Your posting only stands for the proposition that those who frame poll
questions can prove whatever they want. Try DRAFTING some of these queries
sometimes. It is much harder than it looks!
These results are, I suspect, effectively worthless in establishing anything.
Marc
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