Re: a stab at the meaning
Posted by Roger Hunter on October 28, 2005 at 08:38:35:

John;

Hi!

Congrats on the new job (I guess) altho it sounds like a step down in some ways.

> I think Roger means this: assigning Don's predictions random dates instead of the dates Don actually specified gives 21 hits, on average, although once in 10,000 tries, the random choice yielded 40 hits.

Not quite. We're comparing a random number to a real probability and counting number of times random is smaller.

Roger


Follow Ups:
     ● step down? - John Vidale  18:19:33 - 10/28/2005  (29892)  (1)
        ● Re: step down? - Roger Hunter  18:27:53 - 10/28/2005  (29893)  (1)
           ● not really - John Vidale  21:19:49 - 10/28/2005  (29895)  (1)
              ● Very good John - Roger Hunter  05:38:32 - 10/29/2005  (29900)  (1)
                 ● have to see how busy it gets - John Vidale  14:21:37 - 10/29/2005  (29904)  (1)
                    ● Re: have to see how busy it gets - Cathryn  13:18:02 - 10/30/2005  (29919)  (1)
                       ● thanks - John Vidale  17:05:06 - 10/30/2005  (29923)  (0)
     ● aren't we saying the same thing? - John Vidale  13:31:09 - 10/28/2005  (29884)  (1)
        ● Re: aren't we saying the same thing? - Roger Hunter  14:05:07 - 10/28/2005  (29886)  (0)