Re: Statistics

[John Paul Davis <johnd at antioch-college_edu>]

rhys daily wrote:
> On Tue, 4 Feb 2003, Paul Soupiset wrote:
> 

> 
> no no no, see - the odds are 100% that he's speaking to someone (:

Well, technically, the odds are 0% that he was speaking to someone, 
since he wasn't speaking...



> 
> statistically speaking, you don't have data to back up to whom he might be
> speaking - but only to a relative crowd, therefore it behooves you to
> erm..

Is a relative crowd like an electron cloud?
.

> 
> playing around incorrectly with numbers got einstein pretty far (:

I always thought it was the hair.

- John

np: "Dark Driving" - Cave In

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