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From: St 
Date: 14 Apr 2008 23:46:43
Message: <48042523@news.povray.org>
"Darren New" <dne### [at] sanrrcom> wrote in message 
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> 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.)

     You're not making sense. In one sentence they're 'poor people', and in 

175 grand lying around, I could then classify myself as 'poor' too. Wait... 
I don't earn 11% of that...   :o/


    ~Steve~


>
> -- 
>   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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