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To: Elmer who wrote (106583)	8/1/2000 4:11:29 PM
From: Eric K.	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 186894

Wow, Elmer. I'm not sure if you're responding to my posts or some figment of what you think I wrote. Let's look at my original sentence: "Even if a person acknowledges that AMD is slightly ahead, he or she makes the absurd assertion that who has the highest speed processor available in the best volumes is irrelevant because, of course, processor distributions don't follow a normal distribution and there is no correlation between the highest speed grade available and the average speed grade available." There is no way you can argue the contradiction between the first half and the second half of my post in not intentional. It is deliberately placed for the purpose of showing the falaciousness of the general assertion I have often read in articles that the availability of high-speed processor parts is not important. Did you do okay on your SAT and GRE verbal comprehension scores? Your inability or lack of desire to perceive the thrust of that sentence provides me with some insight as to why there is a large disconnect between quantitative/analytical scores and verbal scores for engineers and physical scientists on standardized tests. I don't understand the point of your second post either. I state that with the 2 standard deviation and 2.5 standard deviation processor speeds and number of parts sold, you can roughly determine the shape of the entire normal-curve of binsplits, and then you parrot this back, apparently trying to imply that I didn't know that processor speed are normally distributed. Whatever. -Eric