status quo assumed preferable

Flint · 04-11-2006, 09:42 AM

Hello Beetsie! Thank you for taking an interest in my thread. On a side note, it appears your pledge drive for AG was successful! You really should stop by for a congratulatory thread, but, oh, I'm sorry, no new accounts are being verified at AG. Fiddlesticks!

Now, let's consider the qualifying phrase "idea of" - what does this term suggest? A concrete definition or an admission of a subjective obeservation? People will naturally have perceptions, however it is when when an attempt is made to codify these perceptions into an objective factual statement that a problem arises. Hence, qualifying terms like "idea of" are used to avoid this confusion, to careful readers.

Also, while certainly taking into account the subjective nature of these observations, one might conclude that the mean/standard devation of the behavior of a group of people could be better described from a random sample which meets the criteria of approximating a normal distribution.

lumberjim · 04-11-2006, 11:02 AM

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Originally Posted by Flint

Also, while certainly taking into account the subjective nature of these observations, one might conclude that the mean/standard devation of the behavior of a group of people could be better described from a random sample which meets the criteria of approximating a normal distribution.

I know it must seem like i'm breaking your balls, but this is a 45 word sentence. were you offering to explain this to me? what is there to explain? you didn't say anything. it looked like you were going to, but it kind of fell apart at then end there. are you in politics?

were you trying to say that people are more recognizeable by their differences than their similarities?

04-11-2006, 09:42 AM	#1
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