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To: Wharf Rat who wrote (152177)	12/13/2010 3:26:26 PM
From: Alastair McIntosh	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 542380

'll take that bet, and wager that many of them are members of the AAAS. Many may indeed be members of the AAAS but that does not mean that the partisan affiliation of scientists in the US military, in the energy , pharmaceutical and finance industries would not look starkly different than that of AAAS. Given the advocacy positions of the AAAS it is evident that Rs would be less likely than Ds to support the organization with their membership $. If you can find a list of the political affiliations of the membership I'd love to see it.

To: Wharf Rat who wrote (152177)	12/14/2010 9:16:40 AM
From: Alastair McIntosh	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 542380

"I would guess that AAAS membership is dominated by university and government scientists." We don't have to guess. The poll was dominated by university and gov't scientists. Academic 63% Government 9% Industry 15% Non profit 8% Other 5% people-press.org To evaluate the possibility of nonresponse bias in the scientist survey, respondent characteristics from the obtained sample were compared with known characteristics of the population, based on membership and demographic information in the AAAS membership database. For most characteristics the sample was very representative of the population of all members. The most notable differences were that the sample underrepresented student members and overrepresented those with emeritus status. There also were differences in response rates between those who could be contacted by e-mail and those for whom no e-mail address existed or e-mail contact was not permitted. To correct these potential biases, the data were weighted so that the sample matched the two parameters of contact mode and member category from the AAAS membership database