Where is Sixth Apostle?
posted by Conch Shell
If I was a cartoonist, I'd draw some witty pictures. I'm not, so what's with his absence. I really don't approve of this silent treatment. What is he trying to say?
2005-08-30
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A great thinker once said:
"....everyone wants to be noticed. Some through deeds, some through thoughts, yet everyone wants their day."
Welcome back, 6A. Although I have to chastise you for leaping to a conclusion and then stating it so indelicately. Correlation does not prove causation.
Coyote, did you go to that menu from the Humane Society? It must have you drooling. It looks to me like the "large rabbits" are the real special of the day.
Yeah, Dwarf, but ya can find bunnies anywhere. I feel like foreign food. Maybe Siamese.
And welcome back, Apostle. The short guy is right though -- gotta watch out for that persnickety chi factor. It'll bite ya on the butt otherwise.
What the heck? Guys, why are you giving 6A a hard time for saying what he's thinking?
I wonder, are you both now writing for 5M?
I can see that my ethics note was well timed.
T'ain't ethics, it's statistics, Conch. What we are saying, I believe, is that we have as yet proven no solid link between our actions and the Muse's recent output. The numbers are suggestive, yes, but any number of confounding factors could be in play. We haven't done the research to eliminate them as influences. Or for that matter, even to find out what they are. And I have said, already, that I am an empirical coyote...
Could be she's writing so prodigiously because she's got more time on her hands, not because we provide a captive audience. We just don't know. The chi-squared factor would be the degree of certainty or the level of confidence one may reasonably hold, that there is any statistical correlation at all.
And hey, Nonny: who is this wise guy to whom you so cavalierly omit attribution?
Corrie, was it you who was complaining of feeling like you're in high school? (Maybe it was Siren, Waggie or the Kicker of @55. It doesn't matter.)
All this talk of crushes reminds me of grade 6 and grade 7.
I confess; you've uncovered my deep-rooted love for statistics. But with numbers, it's not a crush, it's a crunch.
Coyote, I thought when you talked about "number crunching" it meant you were chewing more than two mice or voles at a time.
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