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Probabilities are mathematically consistent and abide by proofs and theorems.

Only if the underlying randomness can be ascertained.

yes, you can manipulate the number and trick someone who don’t know into something.

but statistic is very important without it biological research or any other physical science can not move forward……

True, but statistics is just another tool in academic politics.

I got a little further than probabilities. I took a college biology class and we had to do regressions and so forth. If I remember correctly, as long as I set the perimeters tightly enough, then the results are believable.

But in reality, if the problem ever came up, I just send the link to my boyfriend and wait for a reply.

Stats really may be a kind of evil.

You are probably 66.6% correct.

I'd say that's not very good.

Only if the underlying randomness can be ascertained.

Remember there are two types of mathematical proofs, the classically reasoned type we all learned in high-school (or should have), and the "exhaustive" type where all possible disproofs are ruled out. Probabilities, like binomial distributions abide by this (although maybe they are also arrived at classically; IANAMPHD).

Theoretically, all randomness can be ascertained with enough empirical measurement.

You are probably 66.6% correct.

But this stat is useless to me without an alpha or standard deviation and sample size, damnit!

I like the way engineers do proofs: "Works for n=1, works for n=2, works for all n."

Theoretically, all randomness can be ascertained with _enough_ empirical measurement.

Well, well, well... what is moral certainty?

I like the way engineers do proofs: “Works for n=1, works for n=2, works for all n.”

Induction is math, not statistics.

"an alpha or standard deviation and sample size, damnit!"

But if we assume Peter P as the entirety of the evil/non-evil universe...

But if we assume Peter P as the entirety of the evil/non-evil universe…

Huh?

I meant to be humorous...they jump from n=1 & n=2 to all n, without mathematical induction.

Well, that would do away with the sample size issue.

Why it's called mathematical induction when it's a deductive process is a mystery to me. Didn't mean to change the subject away from chi squared distributions and what not.

I meant to be humorous…they jump from n=1 & n=2 to all n, without mathematical induction.

It is fine if n = 2...

Might as well include economists in our late-nite festival:

Micro Economists do proofs as such: if a rational n = 1 but would like to be n = 2, and a rational m = 2 but would like to be one, then P = 1.5, but only assuming elasticity of ..., then we take the set the first derivative AC = 0 ... and finally we discover that MR = MC. Wow, lets make this into a 400 page book with lots of graphs.

Macro Economists do proofs as such: money = this theory, aggregate supply = that theory, capital = other theory, inflation = this + that - other theory. Wave hands a lot, and *poof*, we can't tell you anything about the future except that it is uncertain, but we can explain the past as if we should have known it before it happened.

Well, that would do away with the sample size issue.

If you know alpha you don't need the sample size, but it would be nice. You know how accurate the guess is with an alpha (because it incorporates n and sigma).

LMAO,

That's why I did much better in Macro than Micro economics.

If extraterrestrials were monitoring transmissions from Earth, what would have more meaning for them...the decimal expression of pi to 100 thousand digits, or Hootie and the Blowfish?

They're watching Seinfeld reruns in the Vega system about now, aren't they?

I think they'd be studying up on how to serve us

for dinner

I think they’d be studying up on how to serve us for dinner

Free-range human with truffle cream sauce?

Owneroccupier Says:

“There is a gay phase in adolescence for all guys”

I think it is many, but not “all” guys…

“most of us grow past that, some of us get stuck there. Sexual orientation is not entirely a natural-born thing, it is also influenced strongly by your early sexual experience and sexual partner.”

I think that almost everything is a combination of both nature “and” nurture.

If you look at 100 kids from normal families you will naturally have a small number of gay kids, by if you look at a group of 100 kids who were molested by an older step brother for years you will have a lot more gay kids. The results will be similar if you look at when you guys who hit women every now and then you will have a kid who grew up in a happy Christian home who for some strange natural reason beats his wife, but most abusers come from homes where Dad beat the crap out of the kids and their Mom…

I think sending them a simple sequence of prime numbers would stop them dead in their tracks - Sort of like the Jesuits marching into the Amazon with the Crucifix held high before them.

I think sending them a simple sequence of prime numbers would stop them dead in their tracks - Sort of like the Jesuits marching into the Amazon with the Crucifix held high before them.

Braised "prime number" human brain with cracked pepper.

Let the feast of a thousand beasts begin!

Content has degraded from the thread standard.

Content has degraded from the thread standard.

How?

Do you think aliens will eat human sushi? Or they may think we are filthy animals?

"Content has degraded from the thread standard."

(I'm gonna incorporate that into a Donnie Darko comment and then head for bed)

Peter P,

Are you saying Aliens observe Kosher law?

Oops... if aliens are studying this thread... we just gave them some recipes... oh no!

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Dear aliens, Our brains taste horrible and truffle cream sauce is no good.

astrid gently warmed, drizzled with Jake G. cream sauce. Then sent to bed.

I guess I'll be banned for sure now.

I guess I’ll be banned for sure now.

No one will be banned for suggesting a recipe.

Disclaimer: No recipes here posted have been kitchen tested.

"astrid gently warmed, drizzled with Jake G. cream sauce. Then sent to bed."

And on that obscurely obscene note, good night to all and to all good night.

Disclaimer: No recipes here posted have been kitchen tested.

Also, no animals have been harmed.

Disclaimer: All references to Jake Gyllenhaal cream sauce are made without the express consent of Sony Pictures Inc., Paramount Inc., or Warner Brothers Productions.

Okay now, what is Jake Gyllenhaal cream sauce? Is it similar to truffle cream sauce?