Tom, whose comments I now frankly delete
has picked up a copy of “How to lie with statistics” and is trying it out here. then he says “How about a little intellectual honesty?”
Well, tom, I’ve shown you mine. You show me yours. Oh, wait, you can’t, because you posess none.
You base everything you think on the idea that the Chosen One is Lord, and you reverse engineer from there, ignoring everything that doesn’t suit you.
if you continue to labor under the concept that I am a fan of Bush the Liberal Spender, you can disconnect yourself from that right now. I wish the hell he’d learned how to use the veto pen, but he never did.
On the other hand, a tiny bit of intellectual honesty, and five minutes of googling would show you the cause of the current financial crisis, and tom, you moron, you’d know that the blame rests squarely on the shoulders of your lord.
Tom,
Why bother? You know for a fact that I’ll eat you alive.
“Tom, whose comments I now frankly delete
has picked up a copy of “How to lie with statistics†and is trying it out here.”
Yea… ‘Statistcs for Dumbasses’. It takes a hell of a lot more than picking up a few stats from _a_ ‘book’ to try to fool us yokels. Especially us nobodies who spent some serious time in engineering learning statistics by tuning radar signals.
cond0010 – Which radar systems?
Never got past my senior year in EE, emdfl. I got to the concept of waveguides but never to the different kinds of radars.
The course, what I was referring to was the rudimentaries in the concept of radar signals which was really meant to tie statistics to real life applications.
What I found fascinating was the fact that there were 4 kinds of reflections that was received back: false positive, false negative, true positive and true negative signals. Each of these signals returned were merely a PROBABILITY of something there – the radar didn’t actually _see_ what was out there. I realized I wasn’t in Kansas anymore.
When some bozo tries to flash ‘statistics’ in my face that is very probably a sleight-of-hand magicians trick, I get annoyed: especially people who pick up _a_ book and then think they’re experts (ie our resident Troll, Tom).