In reply to Duke :
I even got one in the Porsche Font.
Duke said:nderwater said:Duke said:You know what? I see enough fat Hispanic people, I don't want to read this crap... smug hypocrisy berking pisses me off sometimes.
OK, this pissed me off enough that I had to go look. Americans males aren't even in the top berking 10 worldwide. And for females, not in the top 20.
Not to undermine your point, but the combined population of all those countries listed above the USA is about the population of the county I live in.
So what? It's a per capita statistic.
They're tiny statistical outliers. Just like I could isolate counties in my state with very high rates of obesity relative to the US national average, but what exactly would that prove about the USA as a whole?
nderwater said:Duke said:nderwater said:Duke said:You know what? I see enough fat Hispanic people, I don't want to read this crap... smug hypocrisy berking pisses me off sometimes.
OK, this pissed me off enough that I had to go look. Americans males aren't even in the top berking 10 worldwide. And for females, not in the top 20.
Not to undermine your point, but the combined population of all those countries listed above the USA is about the population of the county I live in.
So what? It's a per capita statistic.
They're tiny statistical outliers. Just like I could isolate counties in my state with very high rates of obesity relative to the US national average, but what exactly would that prove about the USA as a whole?
In Duke's defense, as a career statistician...
RX Reven' said:In Duke's defense, as a career statistician...
nderwater said:RX Reven' said:In Duke's defense, as a career statistician...
I'm really glad that you're being a good sport about it.
As I'm sure you're aware, something can be statistically correct and yet still be misleading.
Personally, I would have used relative rather than absolute values (i.e. what percent of countries are more obese than the U.S).
To your good point, this would provide a control for the plethora of tiny countries...we'd expect may of them to be less obese than the U.S. which would produce a less flattering percent value for the U.S..
Fun fact, the average person has one testicle and one ovary.
In reply to RX Reven' :
I would argue that the average person has fewer than one testicle and one ovary. Also, fewer than 2 arms and 2 legs. All have one head, however (ignoring a very obvious joke).
I would argue that the average person does not regularly visit the GRM forum, and is therefor not a member of the master race.
Keith Tanner said:In reply to RX Reven' :
I would argue that the average person has fewer than one testicle and one ovary. Also, fewer than 2 arms and 2 legs. All have one head, however (ignoring a very obvious joke).
No contest...I concede your point.
In reply to Keith Tanner :
Also, on average, moor than one skeleton per person.
I once used accurate statistics to convince my vegetarian boss that vegetables cause cancer. Correlation is not causation folks! And a phd dont make you smart.
Meme semi related.
Dusterbd13-michael said:I once used accurate statistics to convince my vegetarian boss that vegetables cause cancer. Correlation is not causation folks! And a phd dont make you smart.
You used mathematically correct calculations, but bad statistics.
Toyman! said:
While it would APPEAR that it took engineers 29 years to come up with that joke, the proposal for the joke is fairly old. Of course it needed a few revisions and the change approval process was a nightmare. Meanwhile the sales guys had promised the client the world but then management came and unilaterally declared that it must not exceed three lines, but cost overruns and the fact that there was only tooling for ten point font meant there was an orphaned word after all. Truth be told, there aren't even fully approved schematics for it, but here it is in production anyway.
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