Tavia, Annie, Carol--
--- Ashton7@aol.com wrote: > In a message dated 2/26/01 1:23:03 PM Eastern
Standard Time, Mac4781@aol.com writes:
<< Those brief answers just might indicate they don't want to be studied. Or as Sally very aptly put it-- "I start feeling uncomfortable, a little like a lab rat who hasn't been asked before the electrodes go in." >>
Yes, well, that was certainly *my* immediate thought in response to Fiona's statements. Uh, maybe I don't want to be studied, especially in such a manner.
Oh, guys, this HURTS. This really, bloody hurts. You may feel like a lab rat, but to be honest, I feel like someone who has spoken up in favour of animal experimentation and come home to find my car burnt down and my house smashed up by animal rights activists (my apologies to Neil for this overgeneralization, but it's true).
I did not want to "study" anybody on the list. I did ask that those people *WHO WANTED TO* answer an honest question about a subject which I did not know about. Nobody is sticking electrodes in your forehead, Annie. Nobody is forcing yout to answer my posts.
Sally and Betty were mature enough to take me at my word, and provide me with intelligent and sensible answers, rather than making nasty overgeneralisations about social scientists.
And for people who go on about sticking up for underdogs as much as that, that's pretty low.
Fiona
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