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Last Call

Polls, Shmolls

this conclusion: Education is the key
no longer
to success, and people begin planning
believe polls.
for their children's college education
The last
before their kids are born.
straw came on
But I guess we're out of touch. And
Sunday with a
I've
been feeling that way since that
Detroit News page-
creationism
poll came out last fall.
one story about how
A CBS-New York Times poll said
state residents feel
that 55 percent of Americans believe
about higher educa-
that God, not evolution, created
HARRY
tion affects the
humans in present form; 27 percent
future success of
KI RS BAUM
believe that humans evolved, but
their children.
Columnist
God guided the process; and 13 per-
According to the
cent
believe that humans evolved and
poll results, I guess
God did not guide the process. I
we should drop the Michigander
thought my neighbors would have
moniker and rename ourselves
shared the same middle school lessons
Michigasses. Because only 63 percent
I learned about evolution, Charles
of us supposedly agree that people
Darwin, Clarence Darrow and the
who have a college education are usu-
Scopes
monkey trial, but I guess I
ally better off than people who don't;
was
wrong.
28 percent believe we can make a
I still can't believe that a whopping
good living with just a high school
37 percent of Americans would favor
education; 18 percent agree that edu-
schools teaching creationism instead
cation is useful up to a point, but it's
of evolution, as the survey claimed.
possible to have too much; and only
That poll was conducted by tele-
54 percent of us agree that everyone
phone
with 885 adults from Nov. 18-
should get a college education.
21,
2004.
Only 71 percent believe that it's
But then it struck me — the use of
important to have a good education
telephones to collect data for the sur-
to get ahead in life.
veys.
The poll was conducted by the
How many of the initial phone
Lansing-based firm EPIC/MRA and
calls went unanswered? How many of
based on phone calls to 1,544 people
those who answered the phone had
from April 1-25. It had a margin of
caller ID? Shouldn't that be one of
error of 3.5 percent.
The poll was broken down between the first questions asked?
I don't know of many people who
racial lines: White-, Arab-, Native-,
don't have caller ID on their home
Hispanic-, Asian- and African-
phone, if they even have a home
Americans, but taken all together the
phone.
phony m
answers were startling.
My
doesn't have caller ID,
Detroit News columnist and editori-
and
she
really
doesn't need it. If she
al page editor Nolan Finley was right:
doesn't
recognize
your voice after the
according to these numbers we're des-
first three syllables, she hangs up with
tined to become the new Mississippi
a dismissive "No, thanks!"
of this century.
The education poll from Michigan
We're not the center of the manu-
totaled 35 questions and the results,
facturing universe anymore. Those
when printed out, came to nine
factory jobs offered to those who
pages, which means that those people
wanted to skip the college experience
who
picked up the phone had a
in my Flint Northern High School
whole lot of time on their hands to
class of 1973 are no longer there.
answer questions from someone they
If you seek employment with only
didn't know.
a high school degree or worse, your
I hope I'm not wrong on this. If I
chances of getting beat out of a job
am,
we'd better start learning some
are much greater now because the
foreign
languages right now or we
competition is much greater, too.
won't
understand
our bosses in a few
Findings of my own poll taken
years.
with colleagues and friends lead to



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