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Re: New Web Page
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lugnet.off-topic.debate
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Fri, 14 May 1999 17:16:56 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Richard Dee writes:
> On Thu, 13 May 1999 14:53:43 GMT, Christopher L. Weeks uttered the following
> profundities...
> > What if I cited lots of numbers suggesting you were wrong? I've done
> > this for people before, but the typical response is "Oh yeah, but those
> > are your numbers, I could find equally significant studies on the
> > opposite side" (but of course they've never produced them) or "Yeah,
> > yeah, yeah, anyone can make numbers say anything...don't you know you
> > can't trust studies."
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> I would be interested to see them. I am, after all, interested in the
> debate, and would like to draw more informed conclusions.
> "I have no *evidence* to support the notion....." Stating that that which
> followed was a supposition. Crime figures for the UK would suggest that that
> supposition had some validity, but probably not so for the US.
> And yes, I could say that any study can be presented in such
> a way as to say whatever the commissioner of the study wanted
> to, but I won't. I don't have any evidence for either, and would
> welcome the chance to draw a conclusion from some evidence.
> Conflicting studies can be used to form a vague middle ground, though.
> How about we each find conflicting studies,
> analyse the two, and derive a conclusion from both that might be
> more "correct?" There might be enough conflicting points in direct
> opposition that cancel each other out, and that left over might just
> be the right answer. Where might I find some.
I wrote a report in High school on gun control. When I find it, would you like
a copy of it or the bibliography?
Jeff
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| (...) I'd like a copy of the bibliography. Dunno about you, but I took all honors and AP English classes when I was in high school (and English is one of the majors I had in college), but I doubt I could get through one of the papers I wrote when I (...) (26 years ago, 16-May-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| On Thu, 13 May 1999 14:53:43 GMT, Christopher L. Weeks uttered the following profundities... (...) It wouldn't generally, but might temper the reaction of "stupid bloody foreigner!" That could instead be "half-stupid, half- foreigner!" (...) (...) (26 years ago, 13-May-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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