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Politics : Electoral College 2000 - Ahead of the Curve -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?


To: TraderGreg who wrote (4362)12/2/2000 11:25:26 PM
From: Ilaine  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 6710
 
>>What I would like to have known(still haven't seen the whole tape cause I'm posting here<g>) is how he ruled out the people doing the voting as the cause of that "something happening".<<

He never explained the reason for that conclusion.
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If you had a million people flip a coin eight times and it came up heads every time, would the rareness of the occurrence and the size of the sample tell you anything about causation?

(Sort of like the monkeys typing Shakespeare. The odds are astronomical, but it's still random.)