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Re: how to lie with statistics
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lugnet.off-topic.debate
Date: 
Thu, 28 Feb 2002 04:50:20 GMT
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RRRRrrrrrr....

In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Larry Pieniazek writes:
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...)

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
building and creating.

Whatever happened in the past I should think would be worked out between
gentleman. You sir again, prevoke my thoughts yet again into a manner
non-consistant to why I joined Lugnet. Further more the fun for me in
visiting Lugnet is seeing the true love of Lego. You tend to sour that
expirence for me when I come accross the vast sums of non-lego breakdowns of
opinions.

What else can I say, I don't care where this post was or where it is going
or who it is about. You bring my name up and try to make your self look good
or use me to prove a point.

You know I worked for 6 months building my GG Mech. It was hard to make. I
care alot about it. It would be nice if you were to post to my publication
on .mecha, I guess you guys rather be over here picking eachother apart.

Thanks alot, really.

Don't you guys get it?

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.

Thanks for using my name to make your self look good. Like using me like a
door step. Where I come from you may be on the other side. It's about Respect.
Why are you prevoking me accross the keyboard?

LEGOMASTER
Caught you using my name 3 months later!!!!!!!
YOUR BUSTED.



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  Re: how to lie with statistics
 
In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Eric Sophie writes: <snip> I stand behind what I said, (in the middle of a very involved thread) three months ago, including my analysis of what transpired when you spammed many groups. But even though I could mount a (...) (22 years ago, 28-Feb-02, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)

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  how to lie with statistics
 
In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Scott Arthur twists reality thusly: (...) 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 (...) (23 years ago, 23-Nov-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)

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