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Re: Nothing personal, but...
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Fri, 22 Jun 2001 08:53:26 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Christopher L. Weeks writes:
> In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Scott Arthur writes:
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> > I am only asking what his source/s of a statistic is.
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> Below this line, you quote his stating that it was a hunch. What the hell more
> do you want from him. He stated clearly that it was just a hunch.
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> > is that simple. If it was a guess, why did he not just say that? Why concoct
> > some asinine story rather than say “I guess” or “I assume”. Like you say,
> > the fact is obvious - we would all have accepted it without question.
> > Instead we get:
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> What the F are you talking about? What asinine story? Read the quote of him
> that _you_ chose to include:
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> > “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 ofthem 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)”
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> > Descibing that as a "guess" or a "hunch" *is* absurd!
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> What the hell are you talking about? He reported an obviously vague statistic
> that was clearly from his own annecdotal evidence. Then, he stated that it was
> a hunch. After you were hassling him about it (for God only knows whatever
> reason...I've read your notes and it's clear as mud to me) he got to wondering
> and checked the data that he had collected to see if his hunch was corroborated
> by the data. It was.
It is the source of the collberation data I am taliking about. I have said
this so may times, I fail to see how you could have missed this. Anyhow, I
am actually fed up with all this now as it is clear to me that Larry is
unwilling to justify himself. Let's just leave it.
Scott A
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> Either I'm just not getting something, or you're not getting something and I
> can't figure out what you're not getting.
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> Chris
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| (...) Below this line, you quote his stating that it was a hunch. What the hell more do you want from him. He stated clearly that it was just a hunch. (...) What the F are you talking about? What asinine story? Read the quote of him that _you_ chose (...) (25 years ago, 21-Jun-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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