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- From: russellg@rintintin.Colorado.EDU (Glenn Russell)
- Newsgroups: rec.music.gdead
- Subject: Re: dark star preference
- Message-ID: <1992Dec22.002020.15025@ucsu.Colorado.EDU>
- Date: 22 Dec 92 00:20:20 GMT
- References: <1992Dec21.143514.28926@uvaarpa.Virginia.EDU> <BzMq51.889@max.physics.sunysb.edu>
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- >In article <1992Dec21.143514.28926@uvaarpa.Virginia.EDU> IWS%ssmic@cdfq.ssd.ray.com writes:
- >>| Then Again, I prefer Dark Star to Lost Sailor, so my tastes are different
- >>| from the bulk of the net.
- >>
-
- I think the bulk of the net is in your camp too, Ihor. The poll
- results that were posted indicating that more people prefer Lost
- Sailor to Dark Star do not tell the full story. Such is the way with
- statistics, they can obscure the story.
-
- Recall that the survey author asked people to name the 5 songs they
- would like Weir to play/revive and the 5 songs they'd like Jerry to
- play/revive. Nearly everyone picked LS for their Weir selection. But
- the Jerry vote was split between many songs, Dark Star being one.
- Consequently, DS was under represented in the final tally.
-
- If the questionaire had asked the question: "Which song do you prefer,
- LS or DS?" I think you would've seen a different distribution of
- answers.
-
- Moral: Know your data!
-
- A statistician is someone who with his head in the oven and
- his feet in a bucket of ice says, "On average, I feel fine"
-
- According to statisticians, the average American has 1 testicle and 1
- breast.
-
- "Statistics are for losers" - Casey Stengel
-
- :-)
-
- glenn ( a stat's freak anxiously waiting for December
- tour stats from net.stat.gods Simon, Jackson et. al.)
-
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