From: Lee Crites <adonai@jump.net>
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: <Pine.SOL.3.91.960930171156.1392A-100000@serv1.jump.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 199609302101.JAA04610@kauri.vuw.ac.nz
On Tue, 1 Oct 1996, John Harper wrote:
> In article <Pine.SOL.3.91.960926130011.17641E-100000@serv1.jump.net> you write:
> >
> >However, the results are no different. Basically, the 13th falls
> >uniformily across each day of the week.
> >
> >Summary of days which the 13th happen on:
> >
> > 4800 total items
> >
> > Sun found 687 times
> > Mon found 685 times
> > Tue found 685 times
> > Wed found 687 times
> > Thu found 684 times
> > Fri found 688 times
> > Sat found 684 times
> > error found 0 times
> >
> Your claim was that the distribution was uniform. Other people claimed
> that the 13th was a Friday most often. You have just proved the other
> people were right. 688 really is bigger than 684, 685 or 687. (You did
> not claim that the distribution was nearly uniform; the other people
> did not claim that the 13th was a Friday very much more often.)
Yes I *did* claim it was 'nearly uniform.'
That is what "Basically, this is a uniform distribution" means. I even
admitted the numbers showed what they show -- that Friday happened more
often, but that "basically" they are the same.
And they are.
If your mother was 687 mile walk one way and your spouse`s mother was 688
mile walk the other way, they'd be "basically as far apart." In fact, if
*I* tried to fixate on the fact that you'd have to walk one more mile to
your spouses mother, you'd think I was as nuts as I think the several of
you are that are trying to tell *ME* how stupid *I* am for saying they are
"basically" the same.
Now, I'll say again, these numbers are "basically" the same. There's no
real statistical slant towards Friday the 13th. That 10 to 15
generations of your children will pass before there is one more Friday
the 13th than there was Sunday the 13th, notwithstanding.
The numbers show there to be exactly one more Friday the 13th than any
other day. This is fine. In fact, for *any* 400 year time period (after
1752, that is), this exact same set of results happen. I admit, as I did
up front, there is one more Friday.
Now, can you guys give it a rest?
Lee
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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 ` Norman H. Cohen
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 ` James Giles
1996-09-19 0:00 ` Daniel J. Long
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
1996-09-21 0:00 ` Ken Pizzini
1996-09-19 0:00 ` Norman H. Cohen
1996-09-19 0:00 ` Andrew Gierth
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 ` Barrie Walker
1996-09-26 0:00 ` Jim Shapiro
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 ` Dr John Stockton
1996-09-26 0:00 ` Lee Crites
1996-09-26 0:00 ` Adam Beneschan
1996-09-27 0:00 ` Glen Clark
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
1996-09-27 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
1996-10-01 0:00 ` Mike McCarty
[not found] ` <199609302101.JAA04610@kauri.vuw.ac.nz>
1996-09-30 0:00 ` Lee Crites [this message]
1996-09-23 0:00 ` Friday 13th, try it yourself (was Language Wars..) 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 ` Randy MacDonald
1996-09-23 0:00 ` Dik T. Winter
1996-09-25 0:00 ` John Harper
1996-09-25 0:00 ` jupiter
1996-09-23 0:00 ` Dr John Stockton
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 ` Dr John Stockton
1996-10-03 0:00 ` Daan Sandee
1996-10-03 0:00 ` Paul Skoczylas
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