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Old November 22nd 05, 07:12 AM posted to rec.radio.amateur.policy
Jeffrey Herman
 
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Default Regulation-by-Bandwidth Petition Filed by ARRL

"6H4Ballast" wrote in message
That's fine by me as just 20% of hams who use HF
also use CW on a regular basis.


"20% of hams", or "20% of hams who responded to a particular survey"?

Now if you ran that same survey by a group of QRP homebrewers, the result
would be closer to 100%.

Statistics is a powerful tool only if care is taken in how the sample
population is chosen. But remember, the results only apply to that *sample*,
not an *entire* population (unless sample = entire, which is quite rare).

73, Jeff KH6O


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