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Subject: Re: Normal distribution no way for machines of diff. generations QED

Author: Bertil Eklund

Date: 14:23:02 06/06/02

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On June 06, 2002 at 17:05:19, Dann Corbit wrote:

>On June 06, 2002 at 16:58:20, Rolf Tueschen wrote:
>[snip]
>>Of course you did. Simply because I made clear resp. I wrote in the earlier
>>parts of the debate that I know exactly the difficulties and theories of
>>statistics. That is why I asked you, out of astonishment, if you had experience
>>with statistics, then I explained that in stats it's very important to clarify
>>the parameters in _advance_. So, if you say that I don't know what I am talking
>>about, then this is a forbidden insult in the presence of the rules of this
>>forum. You can write pages about the errors in my postings, but you have no
>>right to state that I have no idea about what I'm talking about. This is
>>insultive. Like the people of SSDF you take ad hominems as replacement for lack
>>of arguments.
>>
>>I still think that you have honest motivations, but it seems to be a question of
>>bafflement. Simply do it my way. Criticize me but then tell me what exactly was
>>weong and why.
>
>Perhaps it is a problem of communication.  For instance, an argument that all
>the organisms in a statistical study must be identical is clearly absurd.
>
>At any rate, I think we are not communicating very well.  You seem to think
>there is some defect with the SSDF experiment.  What is it exactly?

Anyway thanks to you for your big effort in trying to explain the way the
ELO-system works. I am sure most people understand your interesting and
instructive postings.

Bertil



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