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 41161158451 for ; Sun, 7 Jan 2024 08:34:24 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 5B8A7E2AC7; Sun, 7 Jan 2024 08:34:19 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.hosts.co.uk (smtp.hosts.co.uk [85.233.160.19]) (using TLSv1.3 with cipher TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 (256/256 bits) key-exchange X25519 server-signature RSA-PSS (4096 bits) server-digest SHA256) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 44C86E2A7B for ; Sun, 7 Jan 2024 08:34:17 +0000 (UTC) Received: from host86-152-228-249.range86-152.btcentralplus.com ([86.152.228.249] helo=[192.168.1.99]) by smtp.hosts.co.uk with esmtpa (Exim) (envelope-from ) id 1rMObo-000000003Zu-2IKb for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Sun, 07 Jan 2024 08:34:16 +0000 Message-ID: <58dd15e6-f263-4d8c-b801-3dd519a158a5@youngman.org.uk> Date: Sun, 7 Jan 2024 08:34:15 +0000 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 User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Genlop wonky again Content-Language: en-GB To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org References: <6020182.lOV4Wx5bFT@cube> <13424091.uLZWGnKmhe@cube> <4c0542d5-ac54-497f-bc62-08f10fdc5147@youngman.org.uk> <4886180.GXAFRqVoOG@cube> From: Wols Lists In-Reply-To: <4886180.GXAFRqVoOG@cube> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 7e86dbe8-b264-47e1-ac62-49f8564976d3 X-Archives-Hash: adc66f53d8b7c196e4b0169375b04a36 On 07/01/2024 00:52, Peter Humphrey wrote: > 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. > Weird! I took a module on statistics in my Open University (Chemistry) degree 40-odd years ago. Probably the same one? I've still got the modules as a reference work, though I probably couldn't lay my hands on them easily now ... > I'm still waiting for the entire edifice to come crashing down around our ears. > :) > Nah - it's been abused for so long nobody's noticed it came down centuries ago :-) Cheers, Wol