From: gts (gts_2000@yahoo.com)
Date: Sat Apr 19 2003 - 23:37:06 MDT
Harvey Newstrom wrote:
> gts wrote,
>> Yes. I have, Harvey. Not only did I ace Stat 101,
>> but I also aced all the more advanced statistics
>> courses, including "Quantitative Methods and
>> Research Design," which I took during a Masters
>> Degree program at Cal State.
>>
>> I would like you to show me how anything I wrote in
>> that post was false.
>
> I think you covered the problem with your other
> post.
Good!
Of course you're right about the difficulties of
communicating online, especially when those
communications start to get a little technical. I hope
you find a way to fix the problem. We'll see now if
Eliezer also understands me. Strange thing about my
dialogue in this thread with Eliezer is that I have
agreed with virtually every word he's written in every
post about paleodiet theory, and yet from his last
post to me he apparently does not believe I agree with
him. I hope that problem is also corrected from my
reply to him.
By the way I aced Quantitative Methods and Research
Design during my graduate work primarily because of my
term project. My project was a sophisticated software
program for handicapping pro football. Though the
professor couldn't have known it at the time, except
perhaps intuitively, my statistical algorithm was so
good that it went on to pick the two Superbowl teams,
and the winner of the Superbowl, in the sixth week of
the season. It did so by collectively analyzing almost
every football statistic imaginable for every game and
for every team over a five year history, and in some
very unique ways. The program was so complex that it
took almost half an hour to compute the answer to any
question.
The funniest thing is that I was working intensely on
my football handicapping project well before I ever
enrolled to take the course. I was working on the
project for simple pleasure, because I'm one of those
rare birds who actually likes statistics (heck I
don't even like football). I would have completed my
personal project in exactly the same way regardless of
whether I was enrolled in the course or not. In effect
I aced the course simply because quantitive methods
and research design happened to be my current hobby at
the time.
Another similar personal project of mine was beating
the Nevado casinos at blackjack. Back in the early
80's I was barred from playing cards at six Nevada
casinos. But that's another long story and I won't
bore you with it. Enough about me.
If you aren't already doing so, I suggest you drop
your vegetarian-like diet and start eating other
healthy paleolithic foods! <trying to the keep the
discussion on-topic>
-gts
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