Re: consequences of skepticism of evolution theory

On 2009-10-02, calvin <crice5@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Oct 2, 12:50 pm, Garamond Lethe <cartographi...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
...
You're thinking like a newbie programmer, which surprises me since
you've had at least a little formal training in statistics.
...

Ironic, since my career (1962-2000) was programming
(applications and systems) on mainframe computers.

I have some very dim memories of reading BITNET on a VAX,
but with the exception of some biotech robotics work I
did on WinNT, everything I've done has been on clusters
with *nix.

You might find these fun to look at:

https://computing.llnl.gov/?set=resources&page=index#hardware1

Your taxpayer dollars at work (for which I thank you).

Of course during at least half of that period I was using
desktop computers to do the mainframe work.

;-)


I had only one 3-hour statistics course, for one quarter,
and all I remember is standard deviation, which everybody
knows. But I still have the book 'Statistics - An Introduction'
by D.A.S. Fraser (1958), and my notes.


If you're looking for a gentler introduction to get back up to
speed, I can recommend the Fey's O'Reilly book _Statistics Hacks_
and Motulsky's _Intuitive Biostatistics_. The latter in particular
takes the approach that you need to know less how to calculate a
p-value (which you can find on wikipedia, frankly) than how it
should be used, what it's limitations are, and how to spot
abuse of it in the literature.

Actually, I'm thinking like someone who has such a profound
distrust for liberals that I want to fight whatever they say and
do, to such an extent that I flail around, irrationally grasping
at anything available with which to challenge them, whether
the challenge holds up for longer than five minutes or not.

Just when you've said three or four boneheaded things in a row,
you say something like this that tells me you're much, much
smarter than the people you've been reading....

If we were discussing some other science like, say,
astronomy, or engineering wonders like the unmanned
space program, I think you would find the way I think quite
acceptable, being free from political aversions.

Perhaps I would.

.

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