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By eugene McCarthy Rappahannock Vv*» (.not (ioluinnist
I was reminded by TIME Magazine’s announcement that for 1982, TIME would pick no person of the year, but rather The Computer as the most significant force in that year, that the time for picking the year’s outstanding persons, most admired, most trusted, most anything was upon us.
Noting that GOOD HOUSEKEEPING had already published its list of most admired men and women of 1982, and that the Gallup Poll’s selection would soon be along, I decided to make a study to determine who in the estimation of the citizens and residents of Rappahannock County were most trusted at the end of the year 1982.
In consultation with friends, the decision-was made to make a study that would be more scientific, more thorough, - more comprehensive, more free of possible prejudice, and socially more significant than that of Gallup, GOOD HOUSEKEEPING or others.
Trust, we decided, was a much more important attribute, and quality, than admiration. We concluded further that general “trust” was too vague and that there were important areas or felationships calling for different kinds of degrees of trust.
First we excluded politics, as a general category, but politicians were allowed in ,th^ competition in other categories. We also excluded doctors and lawyers on the principle that much of the basis of trust in them arises from the profession to which $j§py belong and which imposes its own standards of quality. Theoretically every doctor should be as trustworthy as every other doctor much as every beagle is
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