Professor James Fishkin of Stanford University in the United States, who developed the polling technique used, urged some caution about the findings.

该调查使用的方法由美国斯坦福大学教授詹姆斯“菲什金设计，他主张谨慎对待调查结果。”

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Fishkin told us that a lot of Reframe it's users utilize the service in a professional setting to annotate legal texts, for example, but a lot of users also use it in a school setting.

Fishkin告诉我们有许多用户会使用这一服务的专业设置模式来注释一些法律文本，但是也有许多用户使用的是学校设置模式。

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Perhaps most menacingly, the Internet's openness allows well-organized groups to simulate support, to "capture and impersonate the public voice," as Mr. Fishkin wrote in an E-mail exchange.

也许最大的威胁是，因特网的公开性让各种有组织的团体冒充支持，以“获取和冒充公众声音，”就像菲什金先生在一封电子邮件回信中所说的那样。

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He echoes Fishkin and Schwartz's reassurances that the pagerank change has had no effect on sites' traffic.

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Trademarking the methodology of a deliberative poll (as Mr Fishkin has done) may be a form of quality control.

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Mr Fishkin recalls that the first America-wide deliberative poll, in 1996, required airline sponsorship to fly participants to the venue in Austin, Texas.

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