Demographics - Gender

unbreakables · Post by **unbreakables** » 17 June 07 11:05 am

Bronze!!!!! Time for a new hobby,,, Or do you need us to come out and hide a few new caches to keep your mind occupied????

Cached · Post by **Cached** » 17 June 07 2:19 pm

For the reduction in pirates to be causing the increase in global average temperature, the three conditions for causality would have to be met.

A. Co-variation of events.
It would appear from the provided information that as the number of pirates have decreased, that the temperature has been increasing. However, we don't know that if the number of pirates increased if the temperature would again decrease.

B. Time Order Relationship
Did the beginning in the reduction of pirates precede the increase in global temperatures?

C. Elimination of plausible alternative causes
This is where it all fell in a heap...

Stats exam tomorrow....

Team Falling Numerals · Post by **Team Falling Numerals** » 17 June 07 5:50 pm

Cached wrote:For the reduction in pirates to be causing the increase in global average temperature, the three conditions for causality would have to be met.

A. Co-variation of events.
It would appear from the provided information that as the number of pirates have decreased, that the temperature has been increasing. However, we don't know that if the number of pirates increased if the temperature would again decrease.

B. Time Order Relationship
Did the beginning in the reduction of pirates precede the increase in global temperatures?

C. Elimination of plausible alternative causes
This is where it all fell in a heap...

Stats exam tomorrow....

Oh go on and spoil all the fun...

Keep up the bookwork...and good luck for tomorrow.

Good luck to all the students actually. My "little" Falling Numeral starts his uni exams tomorrow with a juicy Physics paper!

MrsMix · Post by **MrsMix** » 18 June 07 10:30 am

What can I say. It's the social scientist in me.

The poor Social Scientist. Someone free him....... Bronzes insides are just as dreadful as his outside.

Mr Walker · Post by **Mr Walker** » 18 June 07 11:42 am

As a non statistician, but social scientist (history geography and politics) that appears to be a poorly constructed graph; in that, at first appearances, it makes you think that the number of pirates is increasing with global warming.

While obviously the number of pirates probably has no effect on global warming, the inverse can not be assumed. Warmer weather should actually increase the number of fair weather pirates.

Also I query your statistical basis for the number of pirates. Depending on your definition of piracy, there are probably more pirates in existence around the world today than at any time in the past. They just tend not to advertise their existence as flamboyantly as those of the past.

The Ginger Loon · Post by **The Ginger Loon** » 18 June 07 1:59 pm

This poll is biased against hermaphrodites...

zactyl · Post by **zactyl** » 18 June 07 2:36 pm

The Ginger Loon wrote:This poll is biased against hermaphrodites...

biased against intersex people please.

The Ginger Loon · Post by **The Ginger Loon** » 18 June 07 5:21 pm

zactyl wrote:
The Ginger Loon wrote:This poll is biased against hermaphrodites...
biased against intersex people please.

I personally don't believe in calling a spade a horizontal digging implement.

Oh, and it's also biased against eunuchs...

And sock puppets...

Team Falling Numerals · Post by **Team Falling Numerals** » 18 June 07 5:57 pm

I am loving where this is going. Keep it up.

Bronze · Post by **Bronze** » 18 June 07 6:18 pm

The Ginger Loon wrote:
I personally don't believe in calling a spade a horizontal digging implement...

Can we just stop with the Bathurst caching thing please.

Walked right into that one didn't you GL?

unbreakables · Post by **unbreakables** » 18 June 07 6:56 pm

Bronze wrote:
The Ginger Loon wrote:
I personally don't believe in calling a spade a horizontal digging implement...

Can we just stop with the Bathurst caching thing please.

Walked right into that one didn't you GL?

Walked or dug!! HeHeHe!!

The Ginger Loon · Post by **The Ginger Loon** » 19 June 07 10:53 am

Bronze wrote: Can we just stop with the Bathurst caching thing please.

Did I mention Bathurst, ever? (except for four words back)

BTW Bronze, PC stands for Personal Computer in my house...

Time for some Lapsang Souchong I think.

Cheesy pigs · Post by **Cheesy pigs** » 19 June 07 11:09 am

I dont know about anyone else, but this thread looks like procrastination to me.......

The Ginger Loon · Post by **The Ginger Loon** » 19 June 07 11:17 am

Yeah, but at least it smells like teen spirit...

Cheesy pigs · Post by **Cheesy pigs** » 19 June 07 11:34 am

The Ginger Loon wrote:Yeah, but at least it smells like teen spirit...

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