Bill Sohl wrote:
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Bill Sohl wrote:

Given the numbers that have been tallied so far, even a margin of
error of 5% misanalyzed would not result in a majority in favor
of keeping morse.

Actually, if 5% were miscategorized, there would be a very slight
majority in favor of keeping at least some code testing.

WRONG! If the current majority of 1311 (54%) went down by 5%,
the number would then be (1311 -66 = 1245) which still gives a
52% majority in favor of the NPRM.

I wrote:

"if 5% were miscategorized"

meaning if 5% were in the wrong category. Fixing that problem would
remove 5% from one category and add 5% to another.

Remove 5% from the anticodetest column and add 5% to the procodetest
column and the majority changes.

(SNIP of repeated "what if's)

Why? Are any of them unreasonable?

Why? FCC ignored majority opinion on the
issue in 1999 - do you really
think the majority opinion matters now?

Actually no I don't, but it doesn't hurt the
nocode test cause to have a majority favoring the change.

True, but note how narrow it is.

And note that the criteria used are quite vague in places. For example:

Do the totals include reply comments as well as comments?

If the same person submits multiple comments that are not identical, or
comments and reply comments, are they all counted, or does each
commenter get counted only once?

How is it determined if a person submits a "valid address"?

Why is the NPRM considered a comment?

Why are the comments of an Australian not counted? Is citizenship a
requirement to be counted? How about residency? Why?

73 de Jim, N2EY