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Simkin

With that fancy Oxford education you boasted of today, one would think you would know a pun when you heard one and chiasmus when you saw it. Evidently not. You mean you pun replacing Gauss with gauze did not receive a proper credit? What I meant was that racist book titled The Bell Curve which said...

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barney wrote: ↑
Sun Sep 11, 2022 8:00 pm
Sorry Simkin, that was really weird and I didn't understand it at all. Can you explain the point to an ignorant Aussie?

Yes it is difficult to comprehend. But can one suggest a simpler explanation of the phenomenon?

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maestrob wrote: ↑
Sat Sep 03, 2022 10:25 am
Proving Racists Wrong Is Not a Trivial Pursuit

In particular because of this subtle form of racism.

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And a good thing for both of us that is too. No more gauzean curves. Shoot from the hip, right? Apparently you do not understand that another name for a Gaussian is the Bell Curve. So one can use this versatile tool again. You see, just as you are many degrees of clueless, I am clued in but mainly ...

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Rach3 wrote: ↑
Sat Sep 10, 2022 9:23 pm
George Soros

You may be surprised, but years ago I was a Soros Scholar at Oxford.

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Belle wrote: ↑
Sat Sep 10, 2022 2:17 pm
This is what happens when progressives hold an entire state in its thrall; the reduction to rubble. And they'll all lie through their teeth,

And people keep voting for the politicians who destroy their cities? One can use it as a heuristic indication of electoral fraud.

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All of your so called proof is stuff and nonsense. I am surprised that anyone could propose that a statistical deviation has only one possible explanation. That is laughably unscientific. Tell it to your buddies from Market Financial who wrote : Hence, the expected normal behaviour is violated and ...

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It is not incumbent on me to opine one way or another about the Washington Post’s coverage of or PNAS’ analysis of elections in Russia. Whether or not their claims are accurate is beside the point and a diversion from the subject under discussion here: Which is YOUR use of "faux statistical ploys" ...

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Unless your cutesy doodles prove that purported deviations from a hypothetical norm render the outcomes of these Michigan elections suspect, let alone corrupt (and they show nothing of the sort), then you are simply peddling diversionary drivel. You use faux statistical ploys to cast doubt on our e...

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Does it apply to Washington Post article about Russian elections? That statement qualifies as patent whataboutism, i.e., a diversionary tactic. The matter under review here is your misrepresentations which twice cast doubt on the integrity of American elections that placed and later retained Barack...

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BTW, I agree with you, thus far (as you yourself stated), Joe Biden has been a 'great president' and I am supremely flattered that you associate his creds with my own; but however much you may be impressed by schoolboy star turns, few other folks give a FF (i.e., a Fisted Furgle) about Biden’s GPA,...

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Tell that tale of cockandbull to a judge, if you don’t mind getting laughed out of court. 580/823,275=0.00070450335 It seems that your credentials are similar to those of our great president who graduated 76th out of 85 students. The point was not that 580 is a big number compare to the gap between...

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CharmNewton wrote: ↑
Mon Aug 15, 2022 6:01 pm
There are millions of audio-only recordings on YouTube. With some care in your presentation, you might have hundreds if not thousands participate in your poll.

You also could not download the clips because of security software?

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In 2008, Obama won Michigan over McCain in an historic landslide — 57%-41%. A margin of 823,275 votes. And in 17 precincts he got 100% vote. In the most populous of those precincts all 580 people voted for Obama. Data here: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/362405619_Precincts_with_over_99_v...

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"The divisions that went purely Obama were primarily in overwhelmingly black sections of West and North Philadelphia. They are 100% racist? The Philadelphia Inquirer visited divisions in question and sought out the small number of registered Republicans. Several had moved or told the paper they did...

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PolitiFact article at least had some numbers. As did the NYT article. And apparently as did the Republican City Commissioner: https://billypenn.com/2016/08/08/what-sean-hannity-got-wrong-about-philly-election-fraud/ In the case of Russian elections such anomalies were considered a sure sign of vote...

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The standard for disputing elections by citing irregularities, as you have done here, is pretty clear: Would it have materially affected the election’s outcome? Obama won Pennsylvania by nearly 310,000 votes in 2012, so even if all 1,003 of your hapless GOPers were unlawfully disenfranchised (and y...

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38 precincts in 2012 had no votes for Obama,including at least 3 in Utah : https://electionlawblog.org/?p=88288 If there was also fraud by Romney supporters it does not disprove the fraud perpetrated by the Obama ones. It would be also good to learn the numbers of registered Democrats in those prec...

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A viral meme had stated that no votes for Romney in 59 divisions in Philadelphia is a mathematical and statistical impossibility. PolitiFact, a publication of Poynter Institute, had analyzed the claim and ruled it a "Pants on Fire." PolitiFact based its judgment on small numbers of registered Republ...

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maestrob wrote: ↑
Fri Aug 12, 2022 9:39 am
Unable to participate as my security software blocked the download.

Suggest using youtube links in future, something we can all access.

You wish a video? So that you could recognize the performer and make the right decision in rating performances?

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Rach3 wrote: ↑
Wed Aug 10, 2022 6:12 pm
Did not intend to respond further.

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Rach3 wrote: ↑
Tue Aug 09, 2022 9:27 pm
Thanks, very interesting.

Think # 1 is Heifetz. # 2 is also excellent. Whoever are either, # 1 a little tauter, aristocratic,, I like it a bit better than the more relaxed ( at times wandering) # 2.Neither mediocre IMHO.

Did you vote in the poll?

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Rach3 wrote: ↑
Tue Aug 09, 2022 4:30 pm
Smart folks.

Who and why?

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Jascha Heifetz was called the emperor of the violin by the media. But does he deserve the title? This experiment will help to find out. Here are two performances of the same musical piece ( Brahms violin concerto, third part). One is by Heifetz (I'll not tell you which), another by a female violinis...

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In 2008 in 17 precincts in Michigan there were 100% votes for Obama. In most populous of those precincts all 580 people voted for Obama. In additional 146 precincts Obama got at least 99% but less than 100%. In the State of New York Obama got 100% of votes in 67 precincts. In additional 200 precinct...

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They violated the law: law violated them.

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Illegal immigrants. What's wrong with threatening criminals?

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A man with a degree in Forestry, who confused a sine with a cosine, read a math lecture at Purdue university. And answered questions. Professors did not suspect anything wrong and thought that the talk was "terrific."

http://ecclesiastes911.net/forest_manag ... math_talk/

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Trump's got pounds of flesh to spare. And afterward you will be whimpering that you bleed when they slightly pierce your finger. Russophobia, non . Putinoma, oui . Easily cured. Direct sunlight and regime change in the USA will make it go poof . You explicitly used "Russians" not Putinists. Why are...

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I did not read the article but did see a BBC production of the Merchant of Venice.

The Russian scare on this forum looks like xenophobia to me. All accompanied by the demands for Trump's flesh.

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My question is the perhaps naive one of what the Russians are trying to accomplish. No one seems to be talking about that. Presumably, they want to ensure that the US has the worst leadership possible Why the best possible leadership had to be given the debate questions beforehand? https://www.wash...

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But did they just hacked emails or planted something into them? There are some strange messages there. I will be sacrificing a chicken in the backyard to Moloch . . . https://wikileaks.org/clinton-emails/emailid/14333 Obama spent about $65,000 of the tax-payers money flying in pizza/dogs from Chicag...

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jserraglio wrote: ↑
Thu Jun 22, 2017 6:46 pm
The nature of an army veteran's military service is none of your business.

On what basis are you discriminating me?

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Read this to learn how to make these charts

http://reverent.org/berezovsky_number.html

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The nature of one's military service is none of anybody's business. But John F did mention Studdert Kennedy's military service: G.A. Studdert Kennedy was very famous indeed in the 1920s, though all but forgotten today and rightly so; he was an army chaplain ("padre") during World War I Why now it b...

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So was I right? John F did not serve as a paratrooper?

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Perhaps, someone from Carthage?

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I served in the U.S. Army for four years, all of them overseas. Probably as a dentist or something. As for the undergraduate population at Cambridge University in 1925, the Great War had ended six years earlier and it's a safe inference that very few of the students were past or present military me...

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New McCarthyism.

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That's very old news. A suppressed one. Here is what Wikipedia says about the experiment As an instructor of English literature at Cambridge University, Richards tested the critical-thinking abilities of his pupils; he removed authorial and contextual information from thirteen poems, one by Henry W...

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Whoever a poster may be, he deserves better than to be answered in a highhanded tone. Heaven only knows why you think the Classical Music Guide is the right place to adopt it. In this article you can find a dismissive review of a poor piano performance written in a highhanded tone. Then a laudatory...

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Longfellow got only a 5% approval rating

http://ecclesiastes911.net/short_rating_of_longfellow/

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Russian prankster called Congresswoman Waters and presented himself as the Prime minister of Ukraine. He persuaded the congresswoman that Russia had invaded Limpopo. And that the dismissed president of Limpopo now wants to flee to Ukraine. https://sputniknews.com/world/201702151050712262-russian-pra...

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A lot less. It is less than 300 pixels.

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Recently had a little entertainment https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kc73G5sJhhg And all cost including aircraft rental, scuba equipment rental, kayak rental, camping, everything was under $1,000. And if we compare it with this Pollock painting, sold for $140,000,000 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No....

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Your recall is not sufficient evidence. But you could make an internet search. Some videos still survive https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PNgWsTsev9g The most interesting thing is how Homo Americanus will not tolerate calling their president the way they don't like and at the same time sponsor the m...

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I am unable to locate a reliable news source that supports the spin you are putting on that event. I recall seeing the "wow" video. Had all the sources been flushed down the memory hole? The most interesting thing is how Homo Americanus will not tolerate calling their president the way they don't l...

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When Hillary Clinton is elected president, we would never tolerate "that female president you've got" from an outsider, but that's the equivalent of what Simkin has done. I don't want to lose him from the board either, but I want him to learn his lesson. And you will also not tolerate remembering h...

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Sigh. Some years ago there was a very careful scholarly project to sort out "real Rembrandt," who was a prolific painter, from "school of Rembrandt" or "attributed to Rembrandt," or "now known to be by another painter." There is a paper trail for many if not most of his paintings. No one doubts the...

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