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4 Sep 2024 05:20:49 EDT (-0400)
  Re: JCTI CCAT  
From: Darren New
Date: 21 Jul 2010 16:26:53
Message: <4c47580d$1@news.povray.org>
Jim Henderson wrote:
> well by picking numbers that prove that. 

The basis of the bell curve and normal distribution are random samples. By 
definition, if you pick samples to prove a point, it's not a random sample.

-- 
Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
    C# - a language whose greatest drawback
    is that its best implementation comes
    from a company that doesn't hate Microsoft.


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