Bazza Posted October 30, 2016 Report Share Posted October 30, 2016 3 lights. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Starlord Posted October 30, 2016 Author Report Share Posted October 30, 2016 Damn straight. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Man Posted October 31, 2016 Report Share Posted October 31, 2016 Didn't you guys watch the episode? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Logan D. Hurricanes Posted October 31, 2016 Report Share Posted October 31, 2016 How many wins does a team need in the World Series? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted October 31, 2016 Report Share Posted October 31, 2016 More than the Cubs ever get. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pariah Posted October 31, 2016 Report Share Posted October 31, 2016 Not that there's a statistically significant data set upon which to base that assertion. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Logan D. Hurricanes Posted October 31, 2016 Report Share Posted October 31, 2016 Look, you want false hope or not? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted October 31, 2016 Report Share Posted October 31, 2016 No matter what the absolute size of a sample, "the complete dataset" is statistically significant. It just makes conventional tools more difficult to apply. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pariah Posted October 31, 2016 Report Share Posted October 31, 2016 That's true. I'm just saying, one data point in 71 years? You're never going to get that published. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Logan D. Hurricanes Posted October 31, 2016 Report Share Posted October 31, 2016 Funny you should say that... Just today I was talking with a co-worker about this guy with 80+ papers published, books written and edited, and it's all useless crap. He invented his own psychological scale (which nobody else uses) and now he gets published all the time. Compared to this guy, that one point is at least hard, verifiable data. Pariah 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted October 31, 2016 Report Share Posted October 31, 2016 That's true. I'm just saying, one data point in 71 years? You're never going to get that published. Remember whom you're talking to? There has been one naked-eye supernova since 1604, and ... doing a simple bibliographic query ... References (4019 between 1850 and 2016): Pariah 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pariah Posted October 31, 2016 Report Share Posted October 31, 2016 Okay, you have a point. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Man Posted October 31, 2016 Report Share Posted October 31, 2016 What you did there: I see it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Starlord Posted October 31, 2016 Author Report Share Posted October 31, 2016 Didn't you guys watch the episode? Many times...but I don't blame Picard for making up that number after all that torture. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bazza Posted October 31, 2016 Report Share Posted October 31, 2016 Basically you do what you have to do to survive. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted October 31, 2016 Report Share Posted October 31, 2016 ... or, perhaps, what will let those that matter most to you survive. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pariah Posted November 4, 2016 Report Share Posted November 4, 2016 Nineteen Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bazza Posted November 4, 2016 Report Share Posted November 4, 2016 Forty-two. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pariah Posted November 4, 2016 Report Share Posted November 4, 2016 I think we've seen that one before. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bazza Posted November 4, 2016 Report Share Posted November 4, 2016 Imaginary Negative Forty-two. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pariah Posted November 4, 2016 Report Share Posted November 4, 2016 Unreal. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bazza Posted November 4, 2016 Report Share Posted November 4, 2016 Well this is the mathematics thread. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted November 4, 2016 Report Share Posted November 4, 2016 A B B A C! A B B A C! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted November 4, 2016 Report Share Posted November 4, 2016 Two. As in, BobCon 2. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Man Posted November 4, 2016 Report Share Posted November 4, 2016 A B B A C! A B B A C! Abacab? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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