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  1. Farnboro John

    UK Invasive Species Survey

    We don't advocate death camps, just a bit of responsible keeping it in your trousers. Maybe get a hobby? There's more than one kind of shag. ;) John
  2. Farnboro John

    UK Invasive Species Survey

    Thank you! Peace feelers have to come from somewhere... Microsoft forms is actually pretty decent stuff and whoever set that up knew what they are doing, ditto formulating the questions. I was slightly annoyed when in trying to save my input for possible edit (actually just so I could refer...
  3. Farnboro John

    UK Invasive Species Survey

    Survey done. Pretty decent effort whatever it is to be used for (I've seen a lot of worse ones!) Good balance between tick boxes and comments. John
  4. Farnboro John

    UK Invasive Species Survey

    Now there's a point: the media sets its own agenda, it isn't public driven. That's one of the awful things about it (not that the opinion of the great unwashed is any smarter). John
  5. Farnboro John

    UK Invasive Species Survey

    It's a point of view... all right then, but it's not a job for a zoologist but a psychologist - or maybe a multi-disciplinary team but then you're outside undergraduate individual projects. John
  6. Farnboro John

    UK Invasive Species Survey

    You've just explained very clearly why public perception shouldn't drive policy and why scientific research should: why we bother to have experts, in fact. You've also explained very clearly why although Cambridge needs to be aware, as a bastion of rationality, of the irrationality of public...
  7. Farnboro John

    UK Invasive Species Survey

    In zoology a lot of undergraduate dissertations are about data for long term tutor research. Saves the tutors doing the ground work. John
  8. Farnboro John

    UK Invasive Species Survey

    I had a quick look. I may or may not undertake the survey but I do not think it is helpful either for scientific recording or for policymaking to address matters of public perception. The only thing to be learned there is already known: that the public is both fickle and in the body, stupid...
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