"Dee D. Flint" wrote in message
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"Kim W5TIT" wrote in message
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"Dwight Stewart" wrote in message
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"Dee D. Flint" wrote:

So please cite the statistical data that shows
people have had enough exposure to Morse
code to be able to evaluate it even though
they don't know it.


I'll tell you what, Dee. You show me where such statistical data is
collected and I'll cite it for you. Until then, it is clear that my
comments
were nothing more than opinions. Of course, you knew that before
responding.


Dwight Stewart (W5NET)

http://www.qsl.net/w5net/


The angle of argument that Dee is trying to use is old, tired and
*yawn*....

Kim W5TIT

No Kim it is not. He made a statement as if it were fact rather than his
personal opinion that most people had had exposure to Morse code. I
challenged him to prove it. This is standard operating procedure in
debate.
Since he is the originator of the statement, then in a debate, he must be
prepared to back it with facts. That the subject here is Morse code does
not negate debate procedures even if he wishes it did.

Dee D. Flint, N8UZE


I was actually commenting, allbeit out of synch, on your defense that
someone can't know they don't like something without experience...etc. I
think that argument is quite indefensible...since it's quite common to
decide that one doesn't like something (or does, for that matter) without
any particular experience with it. For example, things I don't, or
wouldn't, like that I've never tried:

parachuting
picking up clothes at a cleaners
dropping off babies to daycare
raising grandchildren
holding snot in my hand
bungee jumping
parasailing
rough sex
working in a foundry
getting a tattoo
being bald
all kinds of food
spelunking
building a computer...or anything for that matter
being a man

Add countless other things to that list.

If you accept the premise above that I don't like those things without ever
having tried them, then you should accept that I know I would not like CW
without having any real experience with it.

Kim W5TIT