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Strategies & Market Trends : Steve's Channelling Thread -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: SBHX who wrote (7986)	11/19/2000 1:10:53 PM
From: Bosco	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 30051

<ot>Hi SbH - what you ve said is quite reasonable, except that I still have faith in human beings <VBG>. I m not an engineer, much less a scientist, but I do remember the INTC original pentium blunder back in 1995. To some of us, close enough is not good enough! I mean, it may be ok for using a pentium PC to access the internet, but it is not ok to be the CPU controling the missile silo. Mind you, 1,000 [including the oversea absentee ballots] win out of 6.6MM is too tight from a statistical standpoint. The law of averages may be good in a grand scale, but I doubt even the granddaddy of probability calculus, Blaise Pascal, would agree it applied in this case. In fact, it may not be a coincident that some of the greatest mathematical minds throughout history think human beings are still the yardstick Since I ve the privilege to begin my career using key punches, I ve less faith in the machine. Besides, how do you explain the differences between the 2 machine counts? 1,700+ vs 300? If the machine is so infallible, should the variance closer than they are? It is interesting that 1,700 and 300 are gulf apart, but not in light of 6.6MM total. In terms of Gore and Buchanan mistake, not necessarily so. For argument's sake, this is the promixity factor. It is very much like confusing '1' with '7'. One may argue that people may get confused equally a '1' with a '7' and vice versa. Back to this situation, I see both sides are doing politics-as-usual, and even the conscientious people are tainted b/c of their party affiliation. Maybe we should get the Canadians involved to do the manual recount <VBG>! best, Bosco