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24-FEB-2009 John Cross Photography

February 24, 2009

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I use the office at the hangar as a place to study. This year I am working on statistics, just keeping a chapter ahead of the students. I know Dave Beedon will find this revolting, but statistics is actually pretty interesting, especially if you have nothing better to do.

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John Cooper04-Mar-2009 19:42
I had nothing better to do today, so I looked at some statistics, you are wrong, to the nth degree.
jCross01-Mar-2009 12:24
Well, Dave, I see your point. I am sure you forgot that with no standard deviation there is no margin of error. Hence, that makes the difference between being right and being absolutely right. I prefer the latter since I like to take the uncertainty out of most situations. Uncertainty, however, is just a way of life which we must all deal with.

Now, any being, whether of this world or another unnamed place in you know where (wink, wink) who is caught eschewing anything within fifty feet of the airplane will be subjected to the excruciating chi-square torture. This involves entering a series of about 100 numbers in two columns and having to go back and find where an entry was missed, making one column slightly shorter than the other. Which, screws up the calculation thus eschewing a correct answer (sorry).
Dave Beedon01-Mar-2009 09:45
There is a very high probability---with a very low margin of error (and no standard deviation)---that you are right about my attitude toward sta****ics (otherwise known as "the Devil's Dirty Discipline"). For reasonable people there is ALWAYS something better to do than studying you-know-what. The Bhagwan Hotair Windbag of Antelope eschews such subjects in favor of spiritual pursuits; I follow his Blessed Example. Amen.

Your use of Fram filters only partially makes up for the aforementioned shortcoming.