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03-24-2006, 12:16 AM | #283 | |
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For the complementation rule you can look here where they call it incusion-exclusion principle. This is enough for you to do the calculations at home; to get really fluent you would probably need to buy a book in basic statistics. But to get the statistical intuition besides the formulae you need neither the formulae, nor the book, just think of the following: if you focus on one specific district the proabability is small, but over a large number of districts the probability increases, because over a large number of districts even rare events are likely to happen at least once EDIT: I found this interesting site that shows a lot of the things that I was talking about in my previous posts in a very accessible way (more accessible than the Wikipedia links). At that page, it also shows the famous "birthday" problem that contains the same intuition of the problem of the two LGBT principals (although maybe it is clear to me that that it is the same intuition, but it is not that immediate). This site's explanation of the binomial is instead here Last edited by The Wizard from Milan : 03-24-2006 at 12:35 AM. |
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04-26-2006, 10:44 AM | #284 |
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TWFM,
Been away from here for about a month, so I just found your response. I will check it out. Meanwhile, here's a little report from Canada about the attempt to silence opposition to homosexuality by abuse of the rather inchoate hatred act... http://www.lifesite.net/ldn/2006/apr/06041305.html What thinks ye?
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04-26-2006, 10:55 AM | #286 |
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Good, BJ, then you will find this bit of harrassment rather unsettling, eh?
http://www.lifesite.net/ldn/2006/apr/06041902.html
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04-26-2006, 11:41 AM | #288 |
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Then you will just love this!
http://www.alliancedefensefund.org/n....aspx?cid=3724 We apparently no longer think universities should be liberal education institutions, but should push only one agenda... . And, if you can't pay the piper...... http://www.canada.com/ottawacitizen/...e-3871a73e6aeb Do you think this will be put to a vote?
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04-26-2006, 12:06 PM | #289 |
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Hilarious. That librarian sounds like a right eedjit. Hope he gets the sack. How can we succeed in our stated aim of turning everyone into a gay communist muslim single parent asylum seeker with people like that around?
Second story: same thing happened with Gay Pride here in the UK. As a result, they went more commercial and mainstream and, as a result of that result, it became a bit lame and pants. |
04-26-2006, 12:13 PM | #290 | |
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04-26-2006, 12:34 PM | #291 | |
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04-26-2006, 12:47 PM | #292 |
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O, so accusing someone of a hate-speech and being disciplined for recommending books is OK on the face of it, BJ? Like I was to say you were being oppressive for recommending agnosticism? Then you got put on entmoot restriction because I said you frightened me? And then after smearing your name on the 'Moot, nobody noticed us when you were found not guilty?
OK, just checking.
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Or, if it was put to a vote and refused, would you allege oppression? Or, is listening to the adage, "don't throw good money after bad" really a phobic remark of ANY sort and not just a rational observation?
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04-26-2006, 02:11 PM | #294 | |
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If a german language teacher suggested translating mein kampf as a class project it'd probably raise eyebrows, but there is nothing inherently wrong with the teacher suggesting it, or inherently wrong with people against it.
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That librarian case gives me the willies. He couldn't even suggest books to read? He should counter-protest and say those people make him feel "unsafe".
To my mind, it's the familiar liberal idea of stupidity of the masses - apparently they think the students are too stupid to recognize bad books (if they're bad). Why not expose the students to all sorts of ideas? That seems more like what a university should do.
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04-27-2006, 04:22 AM | #296 |
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It's politics with a small p, obviously. Clearly there is a back story, probably involving petty personality clashes and people sitting in poorly ventilated offices like Tam O'Shanter's wife ("nursing her wrath to keep it warm"), which were are getting a selected slice of. "Familiar liberal idea of stupidity of the masses". Hmmm. Not familiar with that one I must confess. I thought liberals were the ones who are in favour of civil rights, free speech, not believing every word of some religious text, etc. I must have been mistaken. |
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Gaffer,
I understand Rian to be saying that the liberal view is that the masses (who don't share the same views as the liberals) need to be brought along to see the light. That is, the masses are apt to vote in ways and act in ways that are disparaged by the elite with the proper understanding of things. In this viewpoint, the librarian must be opposed because the students clearly do NOT have the wherewithal to distinguish between good ideas (liberal ones) and bad ideas (anybody else's). This does rather undercut the concept of education.............. Liberals are not for the concepts you propose to be associated with them unless those ideas concur with their agenda. Try crossing China's liberal policy with West and you get computers without access or restricted access. Now, if you are not a Maoist, this seems not liberal. But if you are a Maoist, just giving access to computers is very liberal. A relativistic position, yes, but liberal by Maoist standards. Now, for the truly paradoxical concept: freedom to be truly human means living in accord with human design as it was intended to be, not as people have limited it in their own imagination of "the knowledge of good and evil". To be truly liberal, be all you can be as the Creator made you to be; don't limit yourself to merely man-made conceptions - but you'd consider that conservative, I bet.
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