Re: "DID PTEROSAURS SURVIVE EXTINCTION?"


"pete" <vincent@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> on Mon, 28 Nov 2005 13:22:56 GMT, George <george@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> sez:
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> ` "Aidan Karley"
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> ` wrote in message
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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
>
> People who have never seen great herons or pelicans before often exclaim
> that they look "prehistoric", or "like a dinosaur" (not terribly
> taxonomically accurate, but that's the demographic). This is partly
> due to the illustrators who use such seabirds as inspiration when
> composing "artist's impression" images.
>
>

I don't doubt it.

George


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