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From: Lee Crites <adonai@jump.net>
Subject: Re: Results of my test: Re: Friday 13th, try it yourself
Date: 1996/09/30
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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