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- From: nelson@reed.edu (Nelson Minar)
- Newsgroups: soc.motss
- Subject: Re: Can anyone tell me about this TV show?
- Message-ID: <1992Nov21.074217.3074@reed.edu>
- Date: 21 Nov 92 07:42:17 GMT
- Article-I.D.: reed.1992Nov21.074217.3074
- References: <1992Nov20.024503.16801@spdcc.com> <1992Nov20.211635.3974@reed.edu> <20NOV92.17154582@enh.nist.gov>
- Reply-To: nelson@reed.edu (Nelson Minar)
- Organization: Reed College, Portland, OR
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- In article <20NOV92.17154582@enh.nist.gov> aberson@enh.nist.gov writes:
- >>"The number of people in America who use electric shavers is X. (the
- >>control group). The number of people in America with cancer who use
- >>electric shavers is Y. Y is much greater than X, implying that the two
- >>are correlated."
-
- >Am I missing something? Y seems to be a subset of X, if I am reading
- >correctly, so Y cannot be greater than X.
-
- Ooops, I'm sorry, I misstated it. I meant to say:
-
- "The percentage of people ... is X. The percentage of people with
- cancer ... is Y. Y is much greater than X."
-
- (to the other person who pointed this out, only for some obnoxious
- reason chose to make it into a flame, I say "phblllllt!")
-
- >>Nelson, who can't stand electric razors.
- >Agreed. I never thought I'd prefer a regular blade, but I started
- >using one a few weeks ago. Maybe now I won't get cancer?
-
- Let's hope not!
-
- I still haven't shaved, about two weeks now. I look really pathetic.
- __
- nelson@reed.edu \/ What in this room is alive and what doesn't have life?
-