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Pastimes : Statistics for Dummies

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To: HighTech who started this subject10/16/2002 7:11:59 PM
From: HighTech  Read Replies (3) of 66
 
Some say that testing a greater number of items taken from a population increases the significance of the results and adds reliability for making predictions. This quote challenges that notion:

I have just completed a thorough statistical examination of the life of President Bush. For 55 years, close to 16,000 observations, he did not die once. I can hence pronounce him as immortal, with a high degree of statistical significance

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