I imagine several people received the query below.  It seems to me to
be an interesting question for discussion, so I offer it for your
consideration.

- Will

Begin forwarded message:

> From: "TALEBANM" <[log in to unmask]>
> Date: September 27, 2005 4:02:29 AM EDT
> To: "Will H. Moore" <[log in to unmask]>
> Subject: a question
>
> Dear professor
> I have a question of you and if it is possible for you to answer me, I
> will be so thankful .
> Research on cross-national determinants of a phenomena limits the
> sample to countries with data availability and typically do not have
> randomly drawn samples, though unavoidable. if the primary assumption
> of all significance tests is probability or randomly sampling why
> cross-national's scholarlies apply these tests?
>
> I am waiting for your response.
> With kind regards.
>
> Mohammadreza Taleban
>
> Dept. of sociology
> Faculty of Humanities
> Tarbiat Modarres University
> Tehran I. R. IRAN

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