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Offline Dark Hunter

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Re: Nearly 25% of Brits think Churchill is a myth
Reply #20 on: February 04, 2008, 04:24:41 pm
Oh man, I remember an Anthropology professor I interviewed for an essay giving me an earful about how useless survey results are after she heard I used such results in my paper.

Quote from: Nuke on February 04, 2008, 06:31:21 am
the problem with these surveys is they only represent the part of the population stupid enough to waste their time on a survey.

And that is pretty much the reason she cited.  :lol:
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Offline NGTM-1R

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Re: Nearly 25% of Brits think Churchill is a myth
Reply #21 on: February 04, 2008, 05:57:56 pm
There are lies, damn lies, and statistics.
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Offline Kie99

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Re: Nearly 25% of Brits think Churchill is a myth
Reply #22 on: February 04, 2008, 06:37:54 pm
Quote from: karajorma on February 04, 2008, 02:13:11 am
Quote from: redsniper on February 03, 2008, 11:06:22 pm
according to a poll out Monday which showed that nearly a quarter think Winston Churchill was a myth

While the other 75% thought he was a mythter? :rolleyes:

:lol::lol:

Brilliant.

This survey is incredible, they must have gone to some kind of adult learning centre.

Still, it wouldn't surprise me if they'd surveyed a council estate.  I did know one bloke once who said "It's 5 miles from here to X, and it's 8 Kilometres, so a Kilometre's obviously bigger."
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Re: Nearly 25% of Brits think Churchill is a myth
Reply #23 on: February 04, 2008, 07:00:07 pm
I had an English teacher than confused Hitler, Stalin, and Churchill...at least the time period was correct.  Good thing it wasn't my history teacher... :D
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Offline Mr. Vega

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Re: Nearly 25% of Brits think Churchill is a myth
Reply #24 on: February 05, 2008, 08:21:20 am
The one that indicated that the Jedi religion was the fourth largest in the UK should tell you everything you need to know about the general validity of surveys.
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Offline Kosh

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Re: Nearly 25% of Brits think Churchill is a myth
Reply #25 on: February 05, 2008, 08:32:50 am
If there's one sure thing this survey indicates, it's that the old british empire isn't coming back anytime soon........
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Re: Nearly 25% of Brits think Churchill is a myth
Reply #26 on: February 05, 2008, 08:48:00 am
Quote from: Kosh on February 05, 2008, 08:32:50 am
If there's one sure thing this survey indicates, it's that the old british empire isn't coming back anytime soon........

No that's certain, look out for the NEW British Empire though! :lol:
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Re: Nearly 25% of Brits think Churchill is a myth
Reply #27 on: February 05, 2008, 09:11:56 am
I'm inclined to agree with Wobble, at least in the 'if they could' mode of thinking. I tend to find an increase in ignorance and lack of historical respect tend to lead to increased expansionism and aggressiveness rather than the opposite.

That said, our current government could have screwed up the Falkland Isles, and Maggie only got involved with that because it was virtually impossible for us to lose, though, in the usual sense of British fairness, our ship-captains turned off their passive Radar to give them a chance ;)
 

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Re: Nearly 25% of Brits think Churchill is a myth
Reply #28 on: February 07, 2008, 09:21:28 am
Quote from: Wobble73 on February 05, 2008, 08:48:00 am
Quote from: Kosh on February 05, 2008, 08:32:50 am
If there's one sure thing this survey indicates, it's that the old british empire isn't coming back anytime soon........

No that's certain, look out for the NEW British Empire though! :lol:

It's called America...  :p
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Re: Nearly 25% of Brits think Churchill is a myth
Reply #29 on: February 10, 2008, 01:09:38 pm
Quote from: IceFire on February 04, 2008, 07:00:07 pm
..Good thing it wasn't my history teacher... :D

It would be like an English teacher confusing adverbs and adjectives. :D

On topic: I agree that surveys tend to be misleading, because people do not take them seriously enough.
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Re: Nearly 25% of Brits think Churchill is a myth
Reply #30 on: February 10, 2008, 01:19:12 pm
If that theory about Winston Churchill knowing about Pearl Harbor BEFORE the famous strike and keeping the secret because he wanted the US to join the war proves to be correct...

Nearly 25% of the Brits are a bunch of retards.

...I'll wait until that moment :P

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Re: Nearly 25% of Brits think Churchill is a myth
Reply #31 on: February 10, 2008, 02:49:47 pm
Quote from: Mobius on February 10, 2008, 01:19:12 pm
If that theory about Winston Churchill knowing about Pearl Harbor BEFORE the famous strike and keeping the secret because he wanted the US to join the war proves to be correct...

Nearly 25% of the Brits are a bunch of retards.

...I'll wait until that moment :P



So if that happened, 50% of the Brits would be stupid (25% with that theory and the 25% who dont believe Churcill exists)? Boy, England is screwed.
 

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Re: Nearly 25% of Brits think Churchill is a myth
Reply #32 on: February 10, 2008, 02:53:12 pm
Quote from: karajorma on February 04, 2008, 02:13:11 am
Quote from: redsniper on February 03, 2008, 11:06:22 pm
according to a poll out Monday which showed that nearly a quarter think Winston Churchill was a myth

While the other 75% thought he was a mythter? :rolleyes:

Looks like both political parties are succeeding in their goal of making us as stupid as the Yanks!

There are two kinds of nations in the world--those who are as dumb as the USA and those who are but pretend they aren't.:P
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Re: Nearly 25% of Brits think Churchill is a myth
Reply #33 on: February 10, 2008, 02:53:53 pm
Spend any period of time on the Internet and you could very well end up believing we're doing well :p
 

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Re: Nearly 25% of Brits think Churchill is a myth
Reply #34 on: February 10, 2008, 02:59:13 pm
At least we never had a government-appointed official (the Archbishop of Canterbury in your case) say that we should split our legal system in two and let the Muslim population impose Sharia religious law on their communities.
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Re: Nearly 25% of Brits think Churchill is a myth
Reply #35 on: February 10, 2008, 03:01:48 pm
Brits losing their grip with reality? Never!

It is reality that loses its grip with us :P

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Re: Nearly 25% of Brits think Churchill is a myth
Reply #36 on: February 10, 2008, 03:02:24 pm
Quote from: Sarafan on February 10, 2008, 02:49:47 pm
Quote from: Mobius on February 10, 2008, 01:19:12 pm
If that theory about Winston Churchill knowing about Pearl Harbor BEFORE the famous strike and keeping the secret because he wanted the US to join the war proves to be correct...

Nearly 25% of the Brits are a bunch of retards.

...I'll wait until that moment :P



So if that happened, 50% of the Brits would be stupid (25% with that theory and the 25% who dont believe Churcill exists)? Boy, England is screwed.

Plus add the ones who can only barely speak English(who are quite a few)...it will end up with foreigners speaking English much better than the English themselves :lol:

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Re: Nearly 25% of Brits think Churchill is a myth
Reply #37 on: February 10, 2008, 03:16:07 pm
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You need gavin in order to backup your statement :P
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Re: Nearly 25% of Brits think Churchill is a myth
Reply #38 on: February 10, 2008, 03:31:41 pm
If that theory proves to be correct, yeah. Otherwise...no.
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Re: Nearly 25% of Brits think Churchill is a myth
Reply #39 on: February 10, 2008, 03:41:33 pm
One Brit steps up to the plate...

If I might point something out?

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UKTV Gold television surveyed 3,000 people.

I rest my ****ing case. Who in their right mind would take a survey of UKTV Gold viewers as an accurate representation of our countries opinions on anything?
 
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