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how to lie with statistics
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lugnet.off-topic.debate
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Fri, 23 Nov 2001 23:27:34 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Scott Arthur twists reality thusly:
> I have said it before, and I will say it again: I've seen you have more
> arguments on this forum (I mean the whole of Lugnet) than any other single
> person. Refute that if you can.
I post a lot. So any metric ought to be on a per post basis. That winnows it
down significantly. Else we're saying that Johnny one post gets the nobel
peace prize because his one and only post didn't get any response whatever.
Next... What is the meaning of "have" in this context? "start" or get
dragged in to? If I happen to post something agreeing with someone else and
an ensuing argumentative post references my post instead of the post I
agreed with, who should get charged for the argument? Me? All I did was
agree with somebody else! If so, then what you are saying is that whenever I
post to any thread whatever it may well be an argument that you charge to me
if someone somewhere in the thread disagrees with something. (the canonical
example of this may well be the Eric Sophie thread in which he singles me
out for agreeing with someone else that his post was way overcrossposted. He
recanted but you'd still charge me with that one no doubt...)
Finally, I'm a lightning rod for twits that disagree with anything and
everything I say, just to disagree. If I post something perfectly innocuous
and some twit comes along and snipes at it, does that count as an argument I
started? Factor them out.
What you're left with is nothing significant. No positive correlation.
Now, on the other hand if we carried the calculus out for YOU, we'd get
rather different results and everyone here knows it. As your DebateCard(tm)
indicates.
Thanks for playing.
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| RRRRrrrrrr.... (...) Big Whoop, and, gee thanks for Dragging my name into this for no good reason. I warn you, please do not use my name at all for any reason in this forum for purposes that advance your own pleasures. I build for the sake of (...) (22 years ago, 28-Feb-02, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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