| Re: THE FOSSIL RECORD REFUTES EVOLUTION |
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Group: alt.philosophy · Group Profile
Author: ed wolfed wolf Date: Sep 18, 2008 02:49
On 17 Sep., 02:50, Immortalist yahoo.com> wrote:> On Sep 16, 2:59 pm, Hamady gmail.com> wrote:
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> if a bucket contains blue, red, green and orange marbles, then a
> sample of three marbles cannot possible be representative of the whole
> population of marbles. As the sample size of marbles increases the
> more likely it becomes that marbles of each color will be selected in
> proportion to their numbers in the whole population.
>Hi
I admire your patience and friendliness towards the willfully
ignorant.
Your example shows,however, not only Hasty Generalization leads
astray,
sampling also leads to wrong conclusions if one has lost his marbles.
regards, ed
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