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- From: gsmith@lauren.iwr.uni-heidelberg.de (Gene W. Smith)
- Subject: Re: Allan Bloom, Micheal Medved and Jack Chick
- Message-ID: <1993Jan25.112028.17344@sun0.urz.uni-heidelberg.de>
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- References: <P0BLXB6w164w@cellar.org> <1993Jan23.144008.22923@sun0.urz.uni-heidelberg.de> <23JAN199311150484@skyblu.ccit.arizona.edu>
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- Date: Mon, 25 Jan 93 11:20:28 GMT
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- In article <23JAN199311150484@skyblu.ccit.arizona.edu>
- lippard@skyblu.ccit.arizona.edu (James J. Lippard) writes:
-
- >Not quite. The argument (which Siano makes in another article which
- >goes into some detail on Medved's book) is more like "Michael Medved
- >misuses statistics to argue for a number of mutually inconsistent
- >propositions, so he is a wacko like unto Jack Chick."
-
- I found Medved's book annoying in some ways. But I would be
- interested to hear how any reasonably sane person would argue it is
- like a Jack Chick comic book. As to misusing statistics, statistics
- are misused in 94.8 % of all cases where they are used at all.
-
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- Gene Ward Smith/Brahms Gang/IWR/Ruprecht-Karls University
- gsmith@kalliope.iwr.uni-heidelberg.de
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