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To: Bearded One who wrote (14504)	11/26/1997 5:02:00 PM
From: Daniel Schuh	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 24154

The problem is one of confidence in the definition of "random". Well, of course that's a problem, Bearded One. As with so many words, that one has a special meaning in the Microsoft context. "That's the most . . ." He catches himself, but according to a colleague he was about to utter the classic Gates put-down: "That's the most random thing I've ever heard." (from wp2.washingtonpost.com Myself, I have total confidence that the poll was "random", probably in Bill's special way. Cheers, Dan.

To: Bearded One who wrote (14504)	11/26/1997 6:28:00 PM
From: Charles Hughes	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 24154

For starters, don't trust any poll in which you don't have the full text of all of the questions on the original questionaire. For example, the actual text here might have been, "Given that 90% of americans have a deep distrust of big business, and you may be one of these, if you had to trust a big company which one of the following would it be: Microsoft, etc etc" Those who had never heard of microsoft would of course be thrown out, as would those who refused to participate in such a frivolous and unrewarding excercise as answering such a question. You might think responsible pollsters wouldn't do that, but of course they do it all the time. They cheat for a living in fact. Chaz