From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) (using TLSv1.3 with cipher TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 (256/256 bits) key-exchange X25519 server-signature RSA-PSS (2048 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id A825D15803E for ; Sun, 7 Jan 2024 00:52:24 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id CC41B2BC03C; Sun, 7 Jan 2024 00:52:19 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smarthost01a.sbp.mail.zen.net.uk (smarthost01a.sbp.mail.zen.net.uk [212.23.1.1]) (using TLSv1.3 with cipher TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 (256/256 bits) key-exchange ECDHE (prime256v1) server-signature RSA-PSS (4096 bits) server-digest SHA256) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 898DC2BC025 for ; Sun, 7 Jan 2024 00:52:18 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [82.69.80.10] (helo=cube.localnet) by smarthost01a.sbp.mail.zen.net.uk with esmtpsa (TLS1.3) tls TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 (Exim 4.95) (envelope-from ) id 1rMHOi-00ElJ8-RK for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Sun, 07 Jan 2024 00:52:17 +0000 From: Peter Humphrey To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Genlop wonky again Date: Sun, 07 Jan 2024 00:52:16 +0000 Message-ID: <4886180.GXAFRqVoOG@cube> In-Reply-To: <4c0542d5-ac54-497f-bc62-08f10fdc5147@youngman.org.uk> References: <6020182.lOV4Wx5bFT@cube> <13424091.uLZWGnKmhe@cube> <4c0542d5-ac54-497f-bc62-08f10fdc5147@youngman.org.uk> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org X-Auto-Response-Suppress: DR, RN, NRN, OOF, AutoReply MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" X-Originating-smarthost01a-IP: [82.69.80.10] Feedback-ID: 82.69.80.10 X-Archives-Salt: 6abb7d53-072e-47ad-9bfe-75f6f7b4af0d X-Archives-Hash: a7852f5ab73a46bd99ee97c09c3bb41c 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.