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In comp.sys.amiga.graphics Matt Sergeant <msergeant@ndirect.co.uk_NOSPAM_PLEASE> wrote:
> Marcel DeVoe wrote:
>> Of course with 100,000 people watching the show and 10 percent (10,000) do
[snip]

> Your arguing doesn't apply here. I wasn't talking about a global
> coincidence that anyone would have their PicassoII manuals at work, but
> the coincidence that *I* had mine at work. I never have any reason to
> bring it in (let alone read it), but that day I just picked it up and
> took it. 

Sure it does. I've read more than one post of Amiga people who like to do
all their newgroup reading at work during idle times. It's cheaper too, ;)
and I am one of them.

And I have many times brought an Amiga manual to work to read or go over
some older manual to review something, during those same idle times.
Couldn't I be that 1% of those?

> I agree with the faking example (my favourite is the stage
> hypnotist who whittles down 5000 people to 5 who happen to be
> hypnotisable (or is that gullible)), but it doesn't apply to the
> individual.

Yep! Although I once saw a show with the "Amazing Kreskin" who doesn't
believe in hypnotism per se, but in "suggestion", who got all except 1 or
2 older individuals in about 25 seated on stage, to not be able to
open their eyes.

Of course like you say, that group may have been screened first for
suggestability from an even larger group. :)

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