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Old April 6th 05, 10:10 PM posted to uk.transport.london
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Default The infamous West London Tram survey


Richard J. wrote:
Dave Arquati wrote:
What figure does that leave? About 68% in favour, and that's a
*minimum* support for the tram in the remaining boroughs - I'm
sure some people in the outer boroughs voted against it.


And your point is? You seem to be trying to argue something from
considering only part of this small and unrepresentative survey of

West
London.
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His point is that if you remove the statistically unrepresentative part
of the survey it shows at least 68% of the people in the locality of
the new tram route do support it and that that is representative.

As always, when you do a survey of specific people, the results follow
the general opinion better than when you ask everyone for their views
because inevitably only people who are strongly against something write
in