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To: epicure who wrote (211834)	1/5/2007 4:47:06 PM
From: Brumar89	Respond to of 281500

Been awhile since I read that - all I remember off the top of my head is the stuff about names and how drug gangs work. Demanding evidence of the type that would stand up in our courtrooms with all their rules on evidence is difficult. In real life you go with the best info you have. And using common sense and experience is advisable. If your kids throw a basketball over your back fence and the nasty neighbors confiscate it, then a few weeks later a basketball remarkably like it flies through your window at 2AM, do you need to have caught the neighbor in the act of throwing it on a security camera to prove it was him? I'd say common sense tells you who threw it.

To: epicure who wrote (211834)	1/5/2007 5:02:31 PM
From: mistermj	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 281500

Iktomi...you raving hypocrite. Where is your evidence that teachers work in poor working conditions compared to the private sector as you tried to tell me? I've asked for evidence to support your claims numerous times as you tried to imply teachers aren't even allowed proper bathroom breaks? Now where is it? Wasn't "common sense" pretty much debunked in Freakonomics? When I read the book, that was my main thought. The lesson of Freakonomics (it seems to me) was demand evidence, and make sure the conclusions drawn fit the data (but the data part was kind of essential).