Do you know how many people were quizzed in the Mori poll? No? 1004. Is that as comprehensive as 39% of the British population? No. yet it constitutes evidence and a national election doesn't? Your icy grip on reason is looking decidedly irrational ... The 1004 are an unbiased sample whereas the 39% of the British population are a self-selected sample which most likely is not representative. It is conceivable that among the 61 % non-voters the opinions to some questions are very different from those of the the 39 % voters. To trust the result from the fewer people more than the result from the many is in fact rational. Your opinion had a much higher probability of being correct than Ringer's objection even before knowing the result of a survey, but there was still a minuscule grain of doubt possible. Ringer was kind of stubborn, but not irrational. Wolfgang
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