On Sat, 8 Mar 2008 23:46:10 -0800 (PST), "Jack
)" wrote:

More dumbing down. It's the usual insult to assume that the public
can't understand numbers such as 60 mph winds.
...

What evidence have you that they do?

I do because we experience 60 mph winds several times a year but we're
not typical of the public at large who, one must assume, do understand
traffic lights.

It's the public that are dumbed down due to poor education. When that
happens, communicating with the public has to follow.
--
Alan White
Mozilla Firefox and Forte Agent.
Twenty-eight miles NW of Glasgow, overlooking Lochs Long and Goil in Argyll, Scotland.
Webcam and weather:- http://windycroft.gt-britain.co.uk/weather