Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/12/05

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Is this believable?
From: "Jacques Bilinski & Barbara Bradbury" <jbilin@axionet.com>
Date: Thu, 5 Dec 2002 22:49:54 -0800
References: <000001c29ce1$951d3850$2002a8c0@SAM> <017a01c29ce5$78ae7c20$6601a8c0@sphillips> <2147483647.1039123569@cambric.reid.org>
 
> Google News has a database of 4000 newspapers, and you can ask it to
search all of them at once. Typing the search query
> photographer cheney maginnis
> into Google News will give you the 2600 article but nothing else. My
opinion is that if this story were true, that at least one other newspaper
would have mentioned it.
>

In order to establish the validtity of this approach it might be meaningful
to investigate how many other stories are reported in only one newspaper.
Then one could take a statistically valid sample of these and try establish
their "truthfulness" by some independent method. - Just a thought.


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