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Re: From Richard: "It's all bad news - Chaos is my fault"
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lugnet.off-topic.debate
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Tue, 1 Jun 2004 15:19:58 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Lindsay Frederick Braun wrote:
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Dave Schuler wrote:
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The 76% figure came from
here, in section 4.3. Poor citation on my part.
**snip of the rest that really should have been obvious to me**
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Note the symbol is not % but its cousin, with two zeroes in the denominator.
That indicates “76 of one thousand.” If they’d meant 76/100, they would have
used 0/0 and not 0/00.
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Man, this is just embarrassing. I did *not* note the mill sign. Maybe if
they’d referred to basis points, it would have gotten through my skull.
But probably not.
I’m reminded of an admission I
made long ago in one of our many discussions of science/religion: I’ve been
wrong in this forum (spectacularly wrong, in fact) on one or two
occasions--that’s how it goes.
Glad to see that I’m consistent, at least.
Dave!
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