On 17/02/2008, Ian Woollard ian.woollard@gmail.com wrote:
On 17/02/2008, Thomas Dalton thomas.dalton@gmail.com wrote:
I can't do that, I think significant is a subjective metric here.
Significance is always subjective. How about we come up with evidence that gives us a rough number and then we can decide if it's significant or not?
Google and other search engines usually give you a stick in the ground but without being completely binding.
I can't think of a search term that is going to reveal the extent of a certain opinion within the Muslim community. For a start, the more extreme a view is, the more people are going to talk about it, so you are naturally going to find disproportionately more cases of the extreme view in a search than the less extreme view. It's possible to compensate for that, but I have no idea what kind of modifier to use.