Subject:
|
Re: The Scott and Larry show (was: Nothing personal, but...)
|
Newsgroups:
|
lugnet.off-topic.debate
|
Date:
|
Wed, 20 Jun 2001 15:00:24 GMT
|
Viewed:
|
625 times
|
| |
|
|
Scott A wrote:
> > He stated an opinion that was based on a lifetime of informal evidence
> > gathering.
>
> Nope. From his message:
>
> > When you
> > challenged me I went off and counted noses at that point in order to see if
> > my hunch was right.
HUNCH. Do you know what that word means? Obviously not.
> > He guessed
> > right! What's your deal?
>
> My deal is that he guessed/fabricated data and is still trying to pass it of
> as fact. I shall remind you, he has not said it was a guess/fabrication yet
> - we (you and I) are only guessing that is the case. This is what he is
> saying he did:
>
> =+=
> When you
> challenged me I went off and counted noses at that point in order to see if
> my hunch was right. It was, at least for the 20+ fests, meetings, events,
> etc., I've attended in 6 countries on 3 continents... (a slightly better
> sample set than yours) For the subset that I reviewed pictures, each one of
> them was more male than 49% and more white than the population average for
> the continent or the country or the state that it was held in. (whichever is
> a good metric)
> =+=
>
> That does not sound like guesswork - it sounds like a good metric. What do
> you think?
What about the word HUNCH do you not understand?
Once again, as usual, you've latched onto one word or phrase in a post and pounded
it into the ground, ignoring the entire post that makes it clear to any critical
thinker.
--
Tom Stangl
***http://www.vfaq.com/
***DSM Visual FAQ home
***http://ba.dsm.org/
***SF Bay Area DSMs
|
|
Message has 1 Reply:
Message is in Reply To:
67 Messages in This Thread:
 
 
- Entire Thread on One Page:
- Nested:
All | Brief | Compact | Dots
Linear:
All | Brief | Compact
This Message and its Replies on One Page:
- Nested:
All | Brief | Compact | Dots
Linear:
All | Brief | Compact
|
|
|
|
