From: Peter Humphrey <peter@prh.myzen.co.uk>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Genlop wonky again
Date: Sun, 07 Jan 2024 00:52:16 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4886180.GXAFRqVoOG@cube> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4c0542d5-ac54-497f-bc62-08f10fdc5147@youngman.org.uk>
On Saturday, 6 January 2024 19:28:05 GMT Wols Lists wrote:
> Statistics is one of those areas where, if you don't know what you're
> doing and you use the wrong maths, then you are going to get stupid results.
>
> "Statistics tell you how to get from A to B. What they don't tell you is
> that you're all at C".
I took a module on statistics in my Open University maths degree 40-odd years
ago. I was bemused. They seemed to say that the subject was founded on two
basic principles; then they proceeded to define each of them in terms of the
other.
I'm still waiting for the entire edifice to come crashing down around our ears.
:)
--
Regards,
Peter.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2024-01-07 0:52 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2024-01-05 23:51 [gentoo-user] Genlop wonky again Peter Humphrey
2024-01-06 0:54 ` John Blinka
2024-01-06 8:56 ` Wols Lists
2024-01-06 16:12 ` John Blinka
2024-01-06 16:21 ` Wols Lists
2024-01-06 16:29 ` Jack
2024-01-06 17:46 ` gennaro amelio
2024-01-06 17:59 ` Peter Humphrey
2024-01-06 19:28 ` Wols Lists
2024-01-07 0:52 ` Peter Humphrey [this message]
2024-01-07 8:34 ` Wols Lists
2024-01-09 3:35 ` Peter Humphrey
2024-01-09 5:26 ` Wols Lists
2024-01-07 10:12 ` Wols Lists
2024-01-06 16:26 ` Daniel Pielmeier
2024-01-06 18:02 ` Peter Humphrey
2024-01-07 9:54 ` [gentoo-user] " Nuno Silva
Reply instructions:
You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:
* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
and reply-to-all from there: mbox
Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style
* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
switches of git-send-email(1):
git send-email \
--in-reply-to=4886180.GXAFRqVoOG@cube \
--to=peter@prh.myzen.co.uk \
--cc=gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org \
/path/to/YOUR_REPLY
https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html
* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line
before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox