[Air-L] April Fooled?

[Caroline Haythornthwaite]

It was a good one :)

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>Date: Wed, 2 Apr 2008 15:24:39 -0400
>From: Barry Wellman <wellman at chass.utoronto.ca>  
>Subject: [Air-L] April Fooled?  
>To: aoir list <air-l at aoir.org>
>
>As I digest, I apologize if someone has answered already
>
>Someone pointed out the UK post yesterday in eMarketer that said that UK
>kids prefer to hang out with their parents rather than online, etc.
>
>A very senior and experienced survey analyst forwarded it to me, totally
>straightforwardly. I replied with skepticism.
>
>A few hours later, he replied that he had been April Fooled. The thing was
>an April Fools Day hoax.
>
>BTW, Barbara Neves, my Portuguese colleague, tells me that in her country
>it's called Liars Day. ;-)
>
> Barry Wellman
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Caroline Haythornthwaite
Associate Professor
Graduate School of Library and Information Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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