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[merlot]

Only yes or no can be your answers. No elaboration. If you feel the need to qualify or get clarity on the questions--kindly don't participate.

You can interpret the questions and put emphasis on any word or concept you want. There are obviously many vantage points these questions can be digested from. Pick the one closest to your views as if you were in a philosophical conversation with someone.

But remember--only yes or no for each question please.

1. Are you an animal?

2. Do you know where your thoughts come from?

[itaewonguy]

[tomato]

I concur with Itaewonguy.

Merlot, wouldn't it be easier to pose this as a poll question?
You could do it in four options:

1. Are you an animal? Yes. Do you know where your thoughts come from? Yes.
2. Are you an animal? Yes. Do you know where your thoughts come from? No.
3. Are you an animal? No. Do you know where your thoughts come from? Yes.
4. Are you an animal? No. Do you know where your thoughts come from? No.

[merlot]

[Atavistic]

[merlot]

[Paji eh Wong]

[mole]

1. Yes
2. Yes

Respond, folks! I'm gonna go nuts waiting for the explanations.

[tomato]

Merlot, I think you are making a few mistakes.

■ Anonymity helps a poll. If every respondent has to reveal his identity, you will tend to limit your poll to the boldest respondents. This will hurt your validity, because you don't know how bold people compare with timid people on your variable.

■ It hurts your validity to tell how you would vote. You are likely to get people to vote the same way you did, just to be nice. Or, on the other hand, you are likely to get people to vote opposite the way you did, just because they enjoy the Devil's advocate game.

It has long been the bane of national polls that Republican pollsters tend to get Republican responses and Democrat pollsters tend to get Democrat responses. In fact, the respondents seem to sense which pollsters are which, even with the pollsters doing their dangdest to conceal their own opinions.

■ I'm not sure what exactly you want. At first, I understood that we were not to editorialize, but later, I understood that we WERE to editorialize. These may be interesting questions to discuss, but a discussion will affect the votes. Whoever gets the latest word will be likely to sway the current votes. If you want to know what opinions people hold BEFORE logging onto this thread, that will hurt your validity.

At any rate, good luck.

[RedRob]

#1 Yes
#2 Yes

[merlot]

[Dome Vans]

Ooops! Sorry.

1. No
2. Yes

Sorry again. Forgot the no elaborating rule.

[merlot]

I knew that would happen,

[Dome Vans]

Was that part of the thread to see how long it took some nib to write his reasoning.

[merlot]