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RE: New heading in framework



Mervyn, Joel, Bob:

There is a television progam here in the U.S. called "Do you want to be a
millionaire?"  The person in the hot seat is shown a series of trivia
questions that get increasingly difficult as he/she advances up the dollar
reward scale.  The contestant must select an answer from one of four
choices, but has three "life lines" each of which he can use only once
during his efforts.  One of these is "Ask the audience."  The audience
selects their best guess from a keyboard at each seat.  From time to time,
an answer seems to be known to everyone but the contestant. When the
audience result is shown and it turns out that, say, 98% of them have
selected the same thing, one can draw two conclusions.  The first is that
the answer is almost certainly correct.  The second is that the contestant
is a bit of a dummy on this issue.  I feel like that contestant, although in
this case 100% of the audience selected the same thing.  It took a bit of
fiddling but I think you have solved my problem by pointing out the secret
weapon:  "Insert Heading (Split Body)."  Sometimes one sits and thinks and
other times one just sits!

Barrie Fairley


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