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re: Mathematical Sample Size

Written by: Saruman
Date: Tuesday, February 4th, 2003
Addressed to: Speaker of Eleusis, Covenant Stormcrow, Fire Walker


Please, let's leave the crack-pot math for the troll "schools"!

The degrees of freedom in a sample size of 3 for that distribution is so
Logosianly bad that it really makes no reliable conclusion. Secondly,
it's not truly random. (I should have said "random" sample size since
that is the key to any statistic.) And no, let's not have people trying
to cite some pseudo-random thing. True and pure randomness is vastly
more difficult to produce in statistics than one would expect; if one
thinks he has a purely random sample when polling mortals, he probably
doesn't. Finally, I only see you cite two experiences with one Occultist
(and no effort to count good experiences) so that's like a sample size
of one or two, depending on what you are counting, not three.

So that's it. No more math lessons from me...


-Saruman.

Penned by my hand on the 23rd of Mayan, in the year 326 AF.


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Public News Post #10560

re: Mathematical Sample Size

Written by: Saruman
Date: Tuesday, February 4th, 2003
Addressed to: Speaker of Eleusis, Covenant Stormcrow, Fire Walker


Please, let's leave the crack-pot math for the troll "schools"!

The degrees of freedom in a sample size of 3 for that distribution is so
Logosianly bad that it really makes no reliable conclusion. Secondly,
it's not truly random. (I should have said "random" sample size since
that is the key to any statistic.) And no, let's not have people trying
to cite some pseudo-random thing. True and pure randomness is vastly
more difficult to produce in statistics than one would expect; if one
thinks he has a purely random sample when polling mortals, he probably
doesn't. Finally, I only see you cite two experiences with one Occultist
(and no effort to count good experiences) so that's like a sample size
of one or two, depending on what you are counting, not three.

So that's it. No more math lessons from me...


-Saruman.

Penned by my hand on the 23rd of Mayan, in the year 326 AF.


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