May 14th 1940 and few little things

[Juha]

Hello Rob
my point is that if we are interested in how common the negative attitude to French performance during the BoF was amongst Polish pilots we must study the group of whose attitude we has knowledge. Then there are those whose attitudes are unknown to us now. And the attitudes of those we cannot study now.

An extreme example would be:
3 million soldiers from country A fought in WWI, nowadays we can find written description on how they felt during the war from 50 000 of those soldiers, of which 45 000 describes mostly negative feelings. Now 45 000 out of 50 000 gives impression that negative attitude to WWI style warfare was very common amongst participants, 45 000 out of 3 000 000 on the other hand means that negative feelings were not common. Of course in the first case we must make clear that we have know ledge of attitudes of only 1/60 of participiants and there might have been tendency of those who were critical to be more likely to vent their feelings.

Juha