"Darren New" <dne### [at] sanrrcom> wrote in message 
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> St. wrote:
>>>>> 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.
>
> That's because you're taking the conversation completely out of context.
>
> In this context, if you actually look, "poor" is the 98th percentile and 
> lower. "Poor" as opposed to "filthy rich."  "Poor" as in "I know lots of 
> people making more than $328K a year, so there couldn't possibly be 99% of 
> the country making less than that."

       OIC. Are you sure?

         ~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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