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- From: egreen@east.sun.com (Ed Green - Pixel Cruncher)
- Newsgroups: rec.motorcycles
- Subject: Re: Saturday night COPS on FOX
- Date: 20 Nov 1992 16:05:39 GMT
- Organization: Sun Microsystems, RTP, NC
- Lines: 36
- Distribution: world
- Message-ID: <1ej2cjINNa20@sixgun.East.Sun.COM>
- References: <1992Nov20.012029.19139@tcsi.com>
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- In article 19139@tcsi.com, markk@tcs.com (Mark Kromer) writes:
- >egreen@east (Ed Green - Pixel Cruncher) writes:
- >
- >>I didn't have to appear to be there. The ONLY way you can obtain such
- >>a figure is by playing games with accident statistics and total milage
- >>statistics and averaging the numbers and dividing the averages to get
- >>an "accidents per mile" number.
- >
- >I only needed (and offered) hypothetical figures for my argument, and
- >I can make those up. I don't need statistics or averages to make my
- >point.
-
- True, you don't need statistics or averages to lie, which is what your
- "point" amounts to. Further, you are *representing* your figures as
- statistically accurate numbers, presumably arrived at from averaging
- valid data, which is another lie. So, you lie to make your lie sound
- good.
-
- >>It is just as valid and accurate as saying "every cigarette you smoke
- >>cuts n minutes off the end of your life."
- >
- >More like:
- >Let's say every cigarette you smoke cuts n minutes off the end of your
- >life. Would that cigarette be worth those n minutes?
-
- Another deceit. I'm sure you think the "let's say" qualifier allows
- you invent any number and propose any correlation you want with
- impunity. While perhaps not technically a "lie," it is certainly
- dishonest.
-
- ---
- Ed Green, former Ninjaite |I was drinking last night with a biker,
- Ed.Green@East.Sun.COM |and I showed him a picture of you. I said,
- DoD #0111 (919)460-8302 |"Go on, get to know her, you'll like her!"
- (The Grateful Dead) --> |It seemed like the least I could do...
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