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From: Darren New
Date: 14 Apr 2008 17:15:04
Message: <4803c958$1@news.povray.org>
St. wrote:
> "Darren New" <dne### [at] sanrrcom> wrote in message 
> news:48038975$1@news.povray.org...
> 
> 
>> It's not that you know lots of doctors. It's that you ignore all the poor 
>> people who you pass every day.
> 
>      That was a low call.

Perhaps I phrased it wrong. It's that you're not conciously counting all 
the people who aren't making $400K that you pass each day, because 
they're not exceptional in your mind. (That's what "selection bias" 
means, in some sense.)

-- 
   Darren New / San Diego, CA, USA (PST)
     "That's pretty. Where's that?"
          "It's the Age of Channelwood."
     "We should go there on vacation some time."


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