Re: "DID PTEROSAURS SURVIVE EXTINCTION?"


"Aidan Karley" <doIlookDAFTenoughTOpost@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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> In article <LWyif.583617$_o.116492@attbi_s71>, George wrote:
>> http://paranormal.about.com/library/weekly/aa061702a.htm
>>
>> Did Pterosaurs Survive Extinction?
>>
> In the spirit of open research, I added my vote to the pile for
> "misidentified" in the poll (let's be generous - most people are not
> very good observers, and most wouldn't know a bat if you poked them in
> the eye with it). Depressing results:
>> What's your opinion of the pterosaur sightings?
>>
>> They are misidentified birds or bats. (256)
>> 12%
>>
>> They are hoaxes. (430)
>> 20%
>>
>> They are real, surviving pterosaurs. (857)
>> 40%
>>
>> They are pterosaurs from a time slip. (214)
>> 10%
>>
>> Not sure. (369)
>> 17%
>>
>> Total Votes: 2126
>>
> The only encouraging things I can find in that is that the site
> is statistically literate enough to actually quote the sample size
> prominently. Actually, that probably means that the coders for the
> site's poll engine were reasonably sophisticated, not necessarily the
> people running the site. <SIGH>
>
> --
> Aidan Karley,
> Aberdeen, Scotland,
> Location: 57°10'11" N, 02°08'43" W (sub-tropical Aberdeen), 0.021233

Interesting result, if not a little scary to think that 40% think that
pterosaurs still exist.

George


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