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| Thread ID: 93588 | 2008-09-23 23:09:00 | Kiwis are thick | pctek (84) | PC World Chat |
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| 707315 | 2008-09-23 23:09:00 | www.stuff.co.nz More than 10 percent of New Zealanders are concerned about the atom-smashing Hadron Collider in Switzerland creating a disastrous mini black-hole, according to a poll. And I watched the Millionaire game show last night for a few minutes, stupid woman at the end struggling with easy questions, even her phone-a-friend was thick. |
pctek (84) | ||
| 707316 | 2008-09-23 23:17:00 | I think all the smart Kiwis are now in Australia, pctek! (Current company excepted, of course!) | johcar (6283) | ||
| 707317 | 2008-09-23 23:21:00 | Anyone who would deign to appear on a game show is thick (and sad) by definition in my opinion. | nofam (9009) | ||
| 707318 | 2008-09-23 23:22:00 | I think all the smart Kiwis are now in Australia, pctek! (Current company excepted, of course!) Was she attractive? That would be why she was on.... Some smart kiwis, (most of us here) :D still don't want to move to Australia, because too many aussies have their heads stuck up their own arses! No pay increase is worth talking to arses all day. Not all Aussies, I know some great ones. But some. |
wratterus (105) | ||
| 707319 | 2008-09-23 23:29:00 | Actually the article brings to mind the Mark Twain definition of lies: "Lies, damned lies and statistics". Link (en.wikipedia.org) I realise that statistical analysis is a science, but I often find it hard to believe the accuracy of polls, supposedly representative of the population at large, when the poll was of a thousand or so people.... |
johcar (6283) | ||
| 707320 | 2008-09-23 23:44:00 | www.stuff.co.nz More than 10 percent of New Zealanders are concerned about the atom-smashing Hadron Collider in Switzerland creating a disastrous mini black-hole, according to a poll. what they forgot to ask was: do you have a basic understanding of particle physics? have you ever read steven hawkins? do you know what the LCH does? then they can ask: do you think the world will end when the LHC is turned on? what they should has said is that 10% of people dont understand particle physics. I would say that the 10% only know what they read in the papers and the papers have been telling them that the world is comming to an end. I only know two real partical physics people but both say its safe. it angers me that the media will print anything that brings in the readers, regardless of the truth. you can have a balanced story but if the headline is "LHC may destory the world" then that all some people read. |
robsonde (120) | ||
| 707321 | 2008-09-23 23:58:00 | Yes I quite agree with you Rob. The fact that they are concerned does not make them thick, it merely reinforces the power the media has over our population. Perhaps if they watched the Large Hadron Rap they would understand... | sammo450 (13626) | ||
| 707322 | 2008-09-24 01:03:00 | So what is really meant is: 10% of the populous are so thick they actually believe what is printed in newpapers! Personally i would have thought we had more thickos than that, but hey, if it's a statistic, it must be right! :p |
personthingy (1670) | ||
| 707323 | 2008-09-24 01:14:00 | I would say that the 10% only know what they read in the papers Which makes them thick. Some of us educate ourselves through other sources......... And I'd go on the Game SHow, especially if they keep asking easy questions like that.......... |
pctek (84) | ||
| 707324 | 2008-09-24 01:44:00 | When they first started recruiting people for the show, I applied online and whizzed through all the questions in well under ten secs. Now why didn't they pick me? Maybe soon as they found I was a bit grey and wrinkly? Or they knew I was too smart and would win heaps of money? I thought the woman who didn't know what a raconteur was, was thick, and she said she was a writer! Of what, tiny tots books? |
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