Conquer Club

2dimes wrote:It's not that I don't care. I'm interested in what happens.
I just think I should leave it up to those that use them.

I hope you guys set up a great new thing.

2dimes wrote:It's not that I don't care. I'm interested in what happens.
I just think I should leave it up to those that use them.

Dukasaur wrote:

2dimes wrote:It's not that I don't care. I'm interested in what happens.
I just think I should leave it up to those that use them.

There are four people using the Games forum and four people using the Mafia forum.

My Stats teachers taught me that any sample size less that 30 is inherently suspect.

Polling the 8 people concerned, therefore, is useless...

TeeGee wrote:

Dukasaur wrote:

2dimes wrote:It's not that I don't care. I'm interested in what happens.
I just think I should leave it up to those that use them.

There are four people using the Games forum and four people using the Mafia forum.

My Stats teachers taught me that any sample size less that 30 is inherently suspect.

Polling the 8 people concerned, therefore, is useless...

Does a Canadian education count? Probably more than a Merry can one actually.

My thoughts are by moving games out of OT it may just be visible to 1 or 2 more people

Dukasaur wrote:

2dimes wrote:It's not that I don't care. I'm interested in what happens.
I just think I should leave it up to those that use them.

There are four people using the Games forum and four people using the Mafia forum.

My Stats teachers taught me that any sample size less that 30 is inherently suspect.

Polling the 8 people concerned, therefore, is useless...

Symmetry wrote:Hmm, how many stats teachers did you have, Duk?

Dukasaur wrote:

Symmetry wrote:Hmm, how many stats teachers did you have, Duk?

I guess three overall.

DoomYoshi wrote:

Dukasaur wrote:

Symmetry wrote:Hmm, how many stats teachers did you have, Duk?

I guess three overall.

That is an inherently suspect sample size.

Dukasaur wrote:

DoomYoshi wrote:

Dukasaur wrote:

Symmetry wrote:Hmm, how many stats teachers did you have, Duk?

I guess three overall.

That is an inherently suspect sample size.

Yeah. I don't know if I should take 27 more stats courses. Seems like a long grind.

Symmetry wrote:

Dukasaur wrote:

DoomYoshi wrote:

Dukasaur wrote:

Symmetry wrote:Hmm, how many stats teachers did you have, Duk?

I guess three overall.

That is an inherently suspect sample size.

Yeah. I don't know if I should take 27 more stats courses. Seems like a long grind.

I dunno mate, you're having to guess at having three so far.

Dukasaur wrote:

Symmetry wrote:

Dukasaur wrote:

DoomYoshi wrote:

Dukasaur wrote:

Symmetry wrote:Hmm, how many stats teachers did you have, Duk?

I guess three overall.

That is an inherently suspect sample size.

Yeah. I don't know if I should take 27 more stats courses. Seems like a long grind.

I dunno mate, you're having to guess at having three so far.

I guess the guess requires an explanation.

In university I had two stats courses, two different years, two different profs. That's an unequivocal two.

The first, however, in high school, leads to the counting problem. The stats I took in high school was not explicitly a stats course. It was called Advanced Algebra and the first half of the course was devoted to Probability and Statistics, while the second half of the course was devoted to Vectors and Matrix Theory. So since only the first half of the course was devoted to Probs and Stats, should I count that only as half a course? In that case, my answer should be that I had 2.5 stats teachers.

But wait! It gets better! Compounding the counting problem is the fact that we had a staffing change during the course.

We had two advanced math teachers. Both of their names escape me now, but one was a fiery redheaded Hungarian (yes, there are redheaded Hungarians, though they are not common. Those damned Vikings fucked their way up and down the Danube just like every other river in Europe and those genes can be found almost everywhere.) He used to jump around the classroom in a highly animated fashion that was halfway between math and circus acrobatics, scribbling his formulas on any available blackboard (sometimes in a non-contiguous fashion) and making huge bold pronouncements with grand flourishes and waves of his arms. He was half Nikola Tesla, half P. T. Barnum, and 100% nuts.

The other one was a meek, soft-spoken, mousy little Englishman with a faint little moustache. He spoke so quietly you had to strain to hear him. He reminded me of Donald Pleasance's character in The Great Escape. (If you've never seen The Great Escape, you really should. It has its flaws, but overall its still one of the great masterworks of cinema.) So anyway, about three weeks into the year, our school had a sudden staff reshuffling. So the Hungarian and the Englishman traded places. Previously, the Hungarian had taught Advanced Algebra and the Englishman had taught Functions and Calculus, but they swapped, so that the Hungarian now taught Functions and Calculus and the Englishman now taught Advanced Algebra. (I was in both classes, so I continued to have both of them.)

So you see my conundrum. By a full counting, I should count both of them, in which case I have had four stats teachers. However, it seems unfair to count someone who only taught the first three weeks of a thirty-week course. It seems especially malodorous since only the first half of that course was devoted to Stats, and by that counting I've only had 2.5. So, I compromised between 2.5 and 4 and decided to call it 3. It's not an entirely satisfactory solution, but it seemed like a decent compromise.

DoomYoshi wrote:

Dukasaur wrote:

Symmetry wrote:Hmm, how many stats teachers did you have, Duk?

I guess three overall.

That is an inherently suspect sample size.

DoomYoshi wrote:tzor hails from the time when computer was an occupation...

Dukasaur wrote:

Symmetry wrote:

Dukasaur wrote:

DoomYoshi wrote:

Dukasaur wrote:

Symmetry wrote:Hmm, how many stats teachers did you have, Duk?

I guess three overall.

That is an inherently suspect sample size.

Yeah. I don't know if I should take 27 more stats courses. Seems like a long grind.

I dunno mate, you're having to guess at having three so far.

I guess the guess requires an explanation.

In university I had two stats courses, two different years, two different profs. That's an unequivocal two.

The first, however, in high school, leads to the counting problem. The stats I took in high school was not explicitly a stats course. It was called Advanced Algebra and the first half of the course was devoted to Probability and Statistics, while the second half of the course was devoted to Vectors and Matrix Theory. So since only the first half of the course was devoted to Probs and Stats, should I count that only as half a course? In that case, my answer should be that I had 2.5 stats teachers.

But wait! It gets better! Compounding the counting problem is the fact that we had a staffing change during the course.

We had two advanced math teachers. Both of their names escape me now, but one was a fiery redheaded Hungarian (yes, there are redheaded Hungarians, though they are not common. Those damned Vikings fucked their way up and down the Danube just like every other river in Europe and those genes can be found almost everywhere.) He used to jump around the classroom in a highly animated fashion that was halfway between math and circus acrobatics, scribbling his formulas on any available blackboard (sometimes in a non-contiguous fashion) and making huge bold pronouncements with grand flourishes and waves of his arms. He was half Nikola Tesla, half P. T. Barnum, and 100% nuts.

The other one was a meek, soft-spoken, mousy little Englishman with a faint little moustache. He spoke so quietly you had to strain to hear him. He reminded me of Donald Pleasance's character in The Great Escape. (If you've never seen The Great Escape, you really should. It has its flaws, but overall its still one of the great masterworks of cinema.) So anyway, about three weeks into the year, our school had a sudden staff reshuffling. So the Hungarian and the Englishman traded places. Previously, the Hungarian had taught Advanced Algebra and the Englishman had taught Functions and Calculus, but they swapped, so that the Hungarian now taught Functions and Calculus and the Englishman now taught Advanced Algebra. (I was in both classes, so I continued to have both of them.)

So you see my conundrum. By a full counting, I should count both of them, in which case I have had four stats teachers. However, it seems unfair to count someone who only taught the first three weeks of a thirty-week course. It seems especially malodorous since only the first half of that course was devoted to Stats, and by that counting I've only had 2.5. So, I compromised between 2.5 and 4 and decided to call it 3. It's not an entirely satisfactory solution, but it seemed like a decent compromise.

2dimes wrote:What's the hold up, I s this caught up in red tape?

Dukasaur wrote:I took courses in Fortran and Cobol. Didn't finish either course.