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Re: Decimal versus binary arithmetic was Re: J4 -

by Richard <riplin@[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Apr 7, 2008 at 10:54 PM

On Apr 8, 1:24=A0pm, Robert <n...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> On Mon, 07 Apr 2008 08:12:37 -0600, Howard Brazee <how...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
wrot=
e:
> >On Fri, 04 Apr 2008 21:19:36 -0600, Robert <n...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>
> >>That sort of ad hominem is what government and big cor****ations do
when =
caught in a lie to
> >>which they have no rational defense. Members of this august forum have
m=
ore artful
> >>responses.
>
> >>Robert: The sun rises in the east.
>
> >Most of the following was amusing - but the basis is that your
> >statement is one that nobody but a fool could argue with. =A0 =A0To be
> >more accurate, you should have started off with:
>
> >Robert: =A0 Dogs have spots.
>
> If two out of two dogs had spots, concluding that all dogs have spots
woul=
d probably, but
> not necessaryily, be a hasty generalization. If a thousand out of a
thousa=
nd dogs had
> spots, the generalization would probably be correct. There is a line
somew=
here between two
> and a thousand. Determining where it is requires independent knowledge
of =
the standard
> deviation between dogs, and a stated confidence interval. If the
deviation=
 where known to
> be zero (dogs are clones), a sample size of one would be adequate. If
the =
goal were
> certainty, abstraction and generalization would be impossible because we
w=
ould have to
> sample every dog in the past, present and future.
>

Yeah, but all that rationalisation and argument is completely
irrelevant when I have a dog here that has no spots.

And that is the real problem with most of your arguments. You have
even claimed that the deviation was zero and thus a sample size of one
or two was sufficient to claim 'all' when _my_ sample was not like
yours at all.


> As a rule of thumb, moderate precision (90%) measurements of human
opinion=
 require 50-200
> samples; high precision (98%) requires 1,000-2,000. Haven't you seen
code =
written by 100
> programmers?


But taking sample opinions of 1000 southern baptists merely shows them
_all_ to be wrong.
 




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"Frank Swarbrick&quo  2008-04-01 13:14:46 
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Clark F Morris <cfmpub  2008-04-01 19:29:05 
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Binyamin Dissen <posti  2008-04-02 10:18:01 
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Alistair <alistair@[EM  2008-04-05 14:39:44 
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Robert <no@[EMAIL PROT  2008-04-05 18:46:10 
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Richard <riplin@[EMAIL  2008-04-07 21:53:28 
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Richard <riplin@[EMAIL  2008-04-07 22:09:08 
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Robert <no@[EMAIL PROT  2008-04-08 22:05:16 
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"Rick Smith" &l  2008-04-09 10:16:29 
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Richard <riplin@[EMAIL  2008-04-07 22:16:47 
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Michael Wojcik <mwojci  2008-04-08 16:57:05 
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Richard <riplin@[EMAIL  2008-04-07 22:29:07 
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Robert <no@[EMAIL PROT  2008-04-08 21:59:07 
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Richard <riplin@[EMAIL  2008-04-07 22:41:07 
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Richard <riplin@[EMAIL  2008-04-07 22:54:32 
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Clark F Morris <cfmpub  2008-04-08 10:31:39 
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docdwarf@[EMAIL PROTECTED  2008-04-08 14:48:38 
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Richard <riplin@[EMAIL  2008-04-08 21:41:10 
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Robert <no@[EMAIL PROT  2008-04-09 19:19:26 
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Richard <riplin@[EMAIL  2008-04-09 18:45:59 
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"Frank Swarbrick&quo  2008-04-03 18:42:16 
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Robert <no@[EMAIL PROT  2008-04-04 00:13:23 
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"William M. Klein&qu  2008-04-04 05:52:42 
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Robert <no@[EMAIL PROT  2008-04-07 22:41:47 
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Howard Brazee <howard@  2008-04-04 07:50:39 
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Robert <no@[EMAIL PROT  2008-04-04 19:51:24 
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docdwarf@[EMAIL PROTECTED  2008-04-05 01:39:33 
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Robert <no@[EMAIL PROT  2008-04-04 21:54:44 
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docdwarf@[EMAIL PROTECTED  2008-04-06 02:23:46 
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Robert <no@[EMAIL PROT  2008-04-07 22:39:38 
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Howard Brazee <howard@  2008-04-08 08:47:27 
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Robert <no@[EMAIL PROT  2008-04-08 20:39:22 
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Howard Brazee <howard@  2008-04-09 07:51:19 
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Robert <no@[EMAIL PROT  2008-04-09 20:00:40 
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Howard Brazee <howard@  2008-04-10 07:36:17 
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Howard Brazee <howard@  2008-04-10 08:53:22 
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Howard Brazee <howard@  2008-04-09 07:53:32 
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Robert <no@[EMAIL PROT  2008-04-09 19:54:10 
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Howard Brazee <howard@  2008-04-07 08:07:32 
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"tlmfru" <la  2008-04-05 10:54:00 
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Robert <no@[EMAIL PROT  2008-04-05 18:18:13 
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"tlmfru" <la  2008-04-07 11:08:23 
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Robert <no@[EMAIL PROT  2008-04-07 21:11:04 
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"tlmfru" <la  2008-04-08 11:00:52 
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"tlmfru" <la  2008-04-07 10:49:27 
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Howard Brazee <howard@  2008-04-07 08:04:00 
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"HeyBub" <he  2008-04-04 08:53:49 
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Robert <no@[EMAIL PROT  2008-04-04 21:19:36 
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"Pete Dashwood"  2008-04-05 17:34:51 
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