Do I need to quote Voltaire again?
“It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong.” - Voltaire
I was recently in the hospital and the dieticians came to visit me. They were telling me that my AC1 was high, as well as my blood sugar. I knew that blood sugar goes up when you’re fighting an infection — they didn’t seem to know that.
They tried to tell me that some number represented a 3 month average of my AC1 or sumthin like that. They had ONE data point, the last one. I tried to explain the MEANING of the word “average”. They did not understand.
I asked them to take the average of 3, 3, 3, 4, 2, 3, 5, 1, 3, 3, 0 and 6. Plenty of hints there. They could NOT see the average.
I pointed out to them that if they took the LAST data point, 6, and told a patient that it represented the AVERAGE, they would be off by 100%.
Even though it was their JOB, they still couldn’t see it.
I ran the same quick test past one of the nurses. She saw right off the bat that the average was 3 and that the last data point was off by 100%.
Math test: How many slaves do you have left if they all escape from the democrat plantation?
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Recall that the SAT test was supposed to promote meritocracy. Now all those white Jews and Asians who proved their merit are as racist as the WASPs the SAT was designed to defeat.