From: adam@irvine.com (Adam Beneschan)
Subject: Re: Results of my test: Re: Friday 13th, try it yourself
Date: 1996/09/30
Date: 1996-09-30T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <52oq4a$8eo@krusty.irvine.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Pine.SOL.3.91.960927175816.8469B-100000@serv1.jump.net
Lee Crites <adonai@jump.net> writes:
>I find it amazing that I'd be taken to task for saying that "basically"
>these results show a uniform distribution -- I figured anyone with
>sense enough to read the message in the first place could understand
>the term 'basically.' I guess I am wrong on that -- so I guess there
>WAS something 'really wrong' with my original message!
>
>It's my guess that if everyone knew there was only one more from the
>beginning, this discussion would have probably never happened! In fact,
>I guess if ANYONE knew the above distribution, this discussion wouldn't
>have happened.
The problem here is that you've completely misunderstood the whole
discussion. The person who originally brought this up said simply
that the 13th occurs on a Friday more often than any other day. He
didn't say "a lot more often" or "significantly more often", just
"more often", which is of course a true statement. The objections to
this statement came at first from people who believed that this was
mathematically impossible (until they figured out that the pattern
repeated after 400 years, not 2800). NOBODY was arguing that there
was a difference of more than one, and nobody except you understood
the argument to be about that. So your "guess" in the second
paragraph I quoted above is incorrect. Yes, the discussion is
definitely about something that is completely irrelevant to anyone's
life, but that happens a lot on USENET.
-- Adam
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Thread overview: 66+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1996-09-13 0:00 language wars (results 13 September) last posting Roy Gardiner
1996-09-13 0:00 ` William Clodius
1996-09-13 0:00 ` Peter Seebach
1996-09-21 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-09-21 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-09-16 0:00 ` Robert Fahey
1996-09-18 0:00 ` James Giles
1996-09-18 0:00 ` Andrew Gierth
1996-09-18 0:00 ` Luke Chao
1996-09-18 0:00 ` Norman H. Cohen
1996-09-18 0:00 ` James Giles
1996-09-19 0:00 ` Andrew Gierth
1996-09-19 0:00 ` Daniel J. Long
1996-09-21 0:00 ` Ken Pizzini
1996-09-21 0:00 ` Ken Pizzini
1996-09-24 0:00 ` Art Schwarz
1996-09-26 0:00 ` Ken Pizzini
1996-09-29 0:00 ` Paul Gilmartin
1996-09-26 0:00 ` Matthew D. Healy
1996-09-29 0:00 ` Randy MacDonald
1996-10-03 0:00 ` galina.kasminskaya
1996-10-03 0:00 ` Dave Tholen
1996-09-19 0:00 ` Norman H. Cohen
1996-09-20 0:00 ` John Girash
1996-09-20 0:00 ` John Girash
1996-09-20 0:00 ` Friday 13th, try it yourself (was Language Wars..) Clinton Pierce
1996-09-21 0:00 ` Russell Mosemann
1996-09-21 0:00 ` Russell Mosemann
1996-09-25 0:00 ` Ken Pizzini
1996-09-25 0:00 ` Results of my test: Re: Friday 13th, try it yourself Lee Crites
1996-09-25 0:00 ` William Clodius
1996-09-27 0:00 ` Dik T. Winter
[not found] ` <52qpqt$1b3l@ilx018.iil.intel.com>
1996-10-02 0:00 ` Dik T. Winter
1996-10-02 0:00 ` Ken Pizzini
1996-09-26 0:00 ` Dr John Stockton
1996-09-26 0:00 ` Lee Crites
1996-09-26 0:00 ` Daan Sandee
1996-09-26 0:00 ` Jeff Drummond
1996-09-30 0:00 ` Ray Dunn
1996-09-26 0:00 ` John Winters
1996-09-26 0:00 ` Adam Beneschan
1996-09-27 0:00 ` Glen Clark
1996-09-27 0:00 ` CHI Research, Inc.
1996-09-27 0:00 ` Lee Crites
1996-09-28 0:00 ` John Winters
1996-09-30 0:00 ` Adam Beneschan [this message]
1996-10-01 0:00 ` Mike McCarty
1996-09-26 0:00 ` Dr John Stockton
[not found] ` <199609302101.JAA04610@kauri.vuw.ac.nz>
1996-09-30 0:00 ` Lee Crites
1996-09-25 0:00 ` Friday 13th, try it yourself (was Language Wars..) Barrie Walker
1996-09-26 0:00 ` Jim Shapiro
1996-09-23 0:00 ` Matthew D. Healy
1996-09-23 0:00 ` Dik T. Winter
1996-09-25 0:00 ` Paul Gilmartin
1996-09-22 0:00 ` Dr John Stockton
1996-09-23 0:00 ` Dr John Stockton
1996-09-23 0:00 ` Randy MacDonald
1996-09-23 0:00 ` Dik T. Winter
1996-09-25 0:00 ` John Harper
1996-09-25 0:00 ` jupiter
1996-09-24 0:00 ` language wars (results 13 September) last posting Andrew Gierth
1996-09-24 0:00 ` Art Schwarz
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
1996-10-03 0:00 Results of my test: Re: Friday 13th, try it yourself James Gillespie
1996-10-03 0:00 ` Daan Sandee
1996-10-03 0:00 ` Dr John Stockton
1996-10-03 0:00 ` Paul Skoczylas
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