Bungee Jumper

Once again, topics the thread is not about.

I haven't offered an analysis of the problem yet, so your criticism is premature. My intention in starting this thread was to have an intelligent conversation about statistics, in a less emotional atmosphere than a thread about eugenics would have created. Partly I saw this thread as an opportunity for people to prove they understand the subject on a deeper level than, for example, the statistics-oriented professor I mentioned earlier. I also saw it as a chance for people to get an accurate measure of how well I understand the topic, instead of making the type of assumptions I've sometimes seen. 817916[/snapback] This is the second time you've used this phrase, so I have to ask: what the !@#$ is a "statistics-oriented professor"?

Although I want to hasten to add that many scientists do just that, then "massage the data" from the experiment to fit the assumption. That horrific Weiss study HA linked to earlier is a great example. But that doesn't mean it's science. At best, it's really really bad science.

Wacka might. Most people realize Rush is an idiot. Plus...myself, all I heard was that Rush accused Fox of acting like his Parkinson's is worse than it is. To which I responded "So !@#$ing what? He still has Parkinson's...and even if he's acting, he'll be that bad before long."

Care to rethink that response, Ed?

"Stone, who dresses like woman..." Who wrote that? Tonto?

It's making me reconsider HA's eugenics ideas...

I don't know, as I don't use sleeping pills. I just read pyrite gals' posts...

"I want this muther!@#$in' cake off my plane!" - Sam Jackson.

You drive a much safer car.

I don't know why you'd even run such a study anyway. Just ask them what their parents' jobs are, and take all the ones whose dads are doctors, since they'll be the smartest.

Ideally, too, you should run the same experiment for the dance club, to control for the possibility that chess players are overly influenced by snack foods...

Of course, even that's flawed, given the way the questions were structured. No matter how you do it, you're comparing two different measurables: "interested/uninterested", and "1-5". So even in your case, you'd be measuring how "uninterested" turns into a numeric scale if snacks are offered...and what the hell kind of result would that give? "Everyone who was uninterested, when offered snack foods, would have had their opinion influenced by a measure of 2 on a 5-scale." Better to ask the second question "Would you have been interested or uninterested if snack foods were offered", so you can actually measure the effect the offer has (i.e. "23% of uninterested people were interested if snacks were available".) And then, of course, there's the little fact that "intent" and "action" are two different things. If you're studying how offering snacks affects membership in a club, your measurable should be membership, not intent...

I don't know about NBA players themselves, but I think making them leave their guns at home makes everyone else safer...

Okay, BF. She's probably a better cook than me, but I doubt your mom trained at the CIA... ...though she is Italian. So maybe I'm being hasty...

My five-cheese lasagna recipe is actually supposed to include gorgonzola...but the wife's deathly allergic to "blue" cheeses.

Pesto pizza...never thought of that, either... My wife used to think I was nuts because I cooked rice with lemon zest and a dash of ground ginger. Then she tried it.

Olive oil? I never thought of that. Interesting idea...

I used to, when I was about 12. But I've found that since then, I've been so spoiled by hot air poppers and then microwave popcorn that I've forgotten how. Literally. Last time I tried, about a year ago, I got oily, burned, unpopped kernels. And let me tell you, nothing makes you feel like a bigger idiot in the kitchen than trying and failing to make popcorn...

You give out financial advice with fries? McD's is really diversifying their business model...

It's great for income creation too, if you're an insurance agent...

At least he left us his popcorn-flavored microwave butter recipe. I can live with that...

I just want to stress: also. I know someone's going to blank on that word, and think you said it's not asset replacement at all...

Chocolate, peanut butter and white chocolate, caramel, and cinnamon "drizzle". What the !@#$ ever happened to popcorn-flavored popcorn?

I know you don't like Ed, but that's just cruel...