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In all, 23 percent of around 1,000 respondents in the survey said they would be prepared to have a chip inserted under their skin "for certain benefits".
Around one in six (16 percent) said they would wear an implant to allow emergency services to rescue them more quickly in the event of a fire or accident.
And five percent of people said they would be prepared to have an implant to make their shopping go more smoothly.
But 72 percent said they would not "under any circumstances" allow electronics in their body.
Originally posted by CX
Does anyone else hate these "polls"?
One in four Germans do not want a chip under their skin, they asked 1000 people, not the population of almost 82 million.
Edited to add: No offence meant to the OP here, i'm not having a go at your post, it's the whole "poll" thing, the media always do it, making out it's the opinions of everyone.
CX.
[edit on 11/3/10 by CX]
Originally posted by spacebot
Star and Flag!
Strange that nobody seems interested in this thread.
I mean what more evidence do you need about the state of the world today. People have become such sheeple that they will practically line up by themselves to be chipped.
Originally posted by hippomchippo
Originally posted by CX
Does anyone else hate these "polls"?
One in four Germans do not want a chip under their skin, they asked 1000 people, not the population of almost 82 million.
Edited to add: No offence meant to the OP here, i'm not having a go at your post, it's the whole "poll" thing, the media always do it, making out it's the opinions of everyone.
CX.
[edit on 11/3/10 by CX]
It's a technique called sampling, please look up on it and its effectiveness
Quote from : Wikipedia : Sampling
Sampling is that part of statistical practice concerned with the selection of individual observations intended to yield some knowledge about a population of concern, especially for the purposes of statistical inference.
Researchers rarely survey the entire population for two reasons (Adèr, Mellenbergh, & Hand, 2008):
(1) The cost is too high and
(2) The population is dynamic, i.e., the component of population could change over time.
There are three main advantages of sampling:
(1) The cost is lower, (2) Data collection is faster, and (3) It is possible to ensure homogeneity and to improve the accuracy and quality of the data because the data set is smaller.
Each observation measures one or more properties (weight, location, etc.) of an observable entity enumerated to distinguish objects or individuals.
Survey weights often need to be applied to the data to adjust for the sample design.
Results from probability theory and statistical theory are employed to guide practice.
In business, sampling is widely used for gathering information about a population.
Amazon Review :
Was IBM, "The Solutions Company," partly responsible for the Final Solution?
That's the question raised by Edwin Black's IBM and the Holocaust, the most controversial book on the subject since Daniel Jonah Goldhagen's Hitler's Willing Executioners.
Black, a son of Holocaust survivors, is less tendentiously simplistic than Goldhagen, but his thesis is no less provocative: he argues that IBM founder Thomas Watson deserved the Merit Cross (Germany's second-highest honor) awarded him by Hitler, his second-biggest customer on earth.
"IBM, primarily through its German subsidiary, made Hitler's program of Jewish destruction a technologic mission the company pursued with chilling success," writes Black.
"IBM had almost single-handedly brought modern warfare into the information age [and] virtually put the 'blitz' in the krieg."
The crucial technology was a precursor to the computer, the IBM Hollerith punch card machine, which Black glimpsed on exhibit at the U.S. Holocaust Museum, inspiring his five-year, top-secret book project.
The Hollerith was used to tabulate and alphabetize census data.
Black says the Hollerith and its punch card data ("hole 3 signified homosexual ... hole 8 designated a Jew") was indispensable in rounding up prisoners, keeping the trains fully packed and on time, tallying the deaths, and organizing the entire war effort.
Hitler's regime was fantastically, suicidally chaotic; could IBM have been the cause of its sole competence: mass-murdering civilians?
Better scholars than I must sift through and appraise Black's mountainous evidence, but clearly the assessment is overdue.
The moral argument turns on one question: How much did IBM New York know about IBM Germany's work, and when?
Black documents a scary game of brinksmanship orchestrated by IBM chief Watson, who walked a fine line between enraging U.S. officials and infuriating Hitler.
He shamefully delayed returning the Nazi medal until forced to--and when he did return it, the Nazis almost kicked IBM and its crucial machines out of Germany.
(Hitler was prone to self-defeating decisions, as demonstrated in How Hitler Could Have Won World War II.)
Black has created a must-read work of history.
But it's also a fascinating business book examining the colliding influences of personality, morality, and cold strategic calculation.
--Tim Appelo
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