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Previously on "Scientists find evidence Antartica is warming"
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Originally posted by Doggy Styles View PostTake no notice of EternalOctopus. He's got eight arms and thinks your joke is in bad taste.
Me - 2
You - unknown
Mich - unknown
EO - 8
Unknown "next" - unknown
A known total of 10 arms for a population of 5 is an average of 2 - so even if you and Mich are totally armless the Unknown next is unlikely to meet my expectation (more than the average)...................... unless he is related to EO obviously.
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Originally posted by Doggy Styles View PostTake no notice of EternalOctopus. He's got eight arms and thinks your joke is in bad taste.
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Take no notice of EternalOctopus. He's got eight arms and thinks your joke is in bad taste.
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Originally posted by EternalOptimist View PostI have a six year old grandson who wouldnt fall for your average arms jape. If you think thats actually any good you must just come off the banana boat
My (original) point being that Statistics can be used to "prove" anything.........
Note: the use of quotation marks on prove..... by putting it in quotes I am acknowledging that it is a corruption of the word/definition of proof. ie Using (biased/out of cotext) statistics provides very (very) weak argument and certainly not proof. Even well supported and qualified statistics only provide support of an idea - proof is a different kettle of fish.
Note: Comparison to a "kettle of fish" doesn't mean that I am literally comparing the definition of the word proof to a "kettle of fish"....
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Originally posted by Drewster View PostEh?? And your point is?
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Originally posted by Solidec View PostIsn not the underlying train of though for the climate change activists that it is changing to more extreme conditions. The peaks and troughs will reach higher and lower respectively.
meaning hotter summers and colder winters. We have had 2 of the hottest summers since records began in the noughties and this winter has been colder than I have ever experienced through December/January. (granted I am not yet 30!)
One of the reasons Global Warming was dropped as a moniker was because it was more a visible change to long established climate patterns, ie more extreme conditions and deviations from averages not seen in over 50 years.
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Originally posted by Drewster View PostThanks Mich - You have probably just cost me an awful lot of money....
Not that I seriously believe that anyone reading this forum would be enough of a numpty to fall for it....... errrrrrrrr Hang on a minute!!! Haven't several recent arguments/threads used (out of context/biased) statistics to "prove" something or other............
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Originally posted by Mich the Tester View PostYes, he does, seeing as there are more amputees than people with an extra arm, the average number of arms is probably about 1.9999
Not that I seriously believe that anyone reading this forum would be enough of a numpty to fall for it....... errrrrrrrr Hang on a minute!!! Haven't several recent arguments/threads used (out of context/biased) statistics to "prove" something or other............
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Originally posted by Drewster View PostGood old statistics........
I will bet an awful lot of money that the next person you see has more than the average number of arms............ Any takers?
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Originally posted by Purple Dalek View PostI wonder if anyone has pointed out to these scientists that when it is winter in Europe it is summer in Antarctica? I've noticed that, generally speaking, it is warmer in the summer than in the winter in just about every place in the world I've been and observed this.
I must admit I've not been to Antarctica, but I presume to extrapolate from my, all be it limited, observations that, it being summer in Antarctica now, it would probably be warmer there currently than the yearly average.
Now, can I have tulip loads of research grants?
I will bet an awful lot of money that the next person you see has more than the average number of arms............ Any takers?
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I wonder if anyone has pointed out to these scientists that when it is winter in Europe it is summer in Antarctica? I've noticed that, generally speaking, it is warmer in the summer than in the winter in just about every place in the world I've been and observed this.
I must admit I've not been to Antarctica, but I presume to extrapolate from my, all be it limited, observations that, it being summer in Antarctica now, it would probably be warmer there currently than the yearly average.
Now, can I have tulip loads of research grants?
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Originally posted by zeitghostIf you think this was cold, you should have been around in 1963...
And those who experienced 1947 say much the same... (snow up to the eves).
And in the mid-1980s we had some nights of -20 deg C in Bedfordshire. A local milkman down the road lost two fingers to frostbite.
And in 1978 we had several football matches called off because our pitch was frozen and covered in snow.
We don't get 'em like that any more.
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