On 31/03/2012 18:01, Roland Perry wrote:
In message , at
16:32:57 on Sat, 31 Mar 2012, Arthur Figgis
remarked:
This is a typical bit of Usenet nonsense, where people are too
inclined
to rubbish the efforts of other professionals, while claiming their
own
activities are a tour de force that's beyond reproach from mere
amateurs.

As in the Titanic was built by professionals, the Ark by amateurs?

I wonder how many marketing/PR people have more than a GCSE in maths?

Thanks for digging a bit more of this hole, and jumping in!

Hmm. Are we building up to you saying that there is a conspiracy by
Big Maths and people with specific sector knowledge to suppress the
secret truths unveiled by PR surveys, a bit like the way people with
medical qualifications conspire against homoeopathy?

No conspiracy, but you meeting a few clueless marketing/PR/
Market_Research people doesn't mean they are all like that.

I'm sure plenty of cavemen assumed that the next sabre-toothed tiger
they would encounter would just want to be their friend. We are probably
not descendants of such cavemen.

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Arthur Figgis Surrey, UK