Letters, Nov. 29, 1954

The Election & After

Sir:

Wasn't it amazing how the pollsters, observers and interpreters thought exactly like the marvelous mechanical brain? A rather pertinent reminder that juggling statistics is not necessarily logical reasoning. Just feed the same statistics, trends and facts into any number of minds and all will rearrange them into the same pattern, and though there may not be a single real thought or reasonable observation in the lot, the pattern is accepted as profound logic . . .

MRS. ALICE J. BROCKWAY Bakersfield, Calif.

Sir:

The election would seem to prove that...

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