RE: Wade's last week's phrase of the day...

From: Vincent Campbell (v.p.campbell@stir.ac.uk)
Date: Tue Nov 20 2001 - 11:22:26 GMT

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From: Vincent Campbell <v.p.campbell@stir.ac.uk>
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Subject: RE: Wade's last week's phrase of the day...
Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2001 11:22:26 -0000
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    Hi,

    This was a programme in the well regarded 'Witness' documentary strand on
    the UK's Channel 4. The figure of 85% return rate was what the Amish told
    the programme makers, and the programme presented it as a caption at the end
    of the show. I don't believe I presented that as fact, but as a claim. Sue
    the programme makers, or the Amish, not me or Chris.

    Vincent

    > ----------
    > From: Chris Taylor
    > Reply To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk
    > Sent: Monday, November 19, 2001 1:52 pm
    > To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk
    > Subject: Re: Wade's last week's phrase of the day...
    >
    > Lawrence DeBivort wrote:
    >
    > >
    > >>I think this is a clever con - take a nice middle class kid (raised for
    > >>years 'on the farm') and dump it in a room full of drugs booze and eager
    > >>members of the opposite sex for a bit and I bet 85% (the return rate)
    > >>turns out to be the chance they'll get badly burned by the experience of
    > >>'freedom'. "Gee take me back to the simple (if slightly dull) life that
    > >>I understand and am not afraid of, so I can rationalise my avoidance of
    > >>*that* scary nightmare that wasn't half as much fun close up"...
    > >>
    > >
    > > Chris, I'm afraid the programme you watched was long on fantasy and
    > short on
    > > facts. Where in the world did you see this???
    >
    >
    > Huh? I was just responding to someone else's post...
    >
    > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
    > Chris Taylor (chris@bioinf.man.ac.uk)
    > http://bioinf.man.ac.uk/ »people»chris
    > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
    >
    >
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