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Talk:Essay:Best New Conservative Words (view source)
Revision as of 22:20, January 31, 2013
, 22:20, January 31, 2013→Conservative Words hypothesis is errant: adding links to archives
::::::''Think about why.'' Because you have invented a new kind of statistics?
::::::''Think about why.'' Because you have invented a new kind of statistics?
::::::Using your method, we could show that there are as many Germans as there are Americans, just by alternately listing Germans and Americans! That could go on for quite a while, without proving anything about the real ratio.
::::::Using your method, we could show that there are as many Germans as there are Americans, just by alternately listing Germans and Americans! That could go on for quite a while, without proving anything about the real ratio. (Browsing through the archives, I see I'm not the first to point this out: see [[Talk:Essay:Best_New_Conservative_Words/archive3#Research_method|here]] and [[Talk:Essay:Best_New_Conservative_Words/archive3#Selection_Bias_and_Proposal_for_an_Unbiased_Test|here]])
::::::--[[User:AugustO|AugustO]] 16:57, 31 January 2013 (EST)
::::::--[[User:AugustO|AugustO]] 16:57, 31 January 2013 (EST)