[ZX12R]

Nice shot but I am a hard sell. I am going to have to see the little green creatures exiting the craft before I believe it is a space ship from another planet.

You are obviously suffering from the type II error that Quix is always referencing. Whatever that is, I don't know, but you got it.

[Ditter]

I guess I am, I read his explanation of the type 2 error but I seem to have forgotten what it was. I guess I am DOOMED!

[Quix]

I think Ditter has long been a card carrying member of the

TYPE II ERROR addicted club.

I think you’ve had it explained a number of times, ZX12R.

Once more around the block . . .

[uhhhh would it be possible to transfer a little more of that horsepower you wrap your legs around to between your ears, first?—joke]

1. A TYPE I ERROR occurs when one believes that SOMETHING is there, when, in fact, NOTHING SIGNIFICANT IS there.

2. A TYPE II ERROR occurs when one believes that NOTHING is there, when, in fact, SOMETHING SIGNIFICANT IS there.

3. In the statistical analysis of probabilities, even in the “real” world we tangibly contact 24/7, . . . ONE CANNOT HOLD A POSITION TOOOO EXTREME IN AVOIDING ONE TYPE OF ERROR ABOVE—WITHOUT—UNALTERABLY MAKING IT HIGHLY PROBABLE TO VIRTUALLY CERTAIN THAT ONE WILL BECOME VICTIM OF THE OTHER TYPE OF ERROR.

4. Therefore, the arbitrarily blind and obsessive DEATH-GRIP addiction most naysayers have toward AVOIDING a TYPE I ERROR

AUTOMATICALLY LANDS THEM IN THE CONDITION OF HAVING A DEATH-GRIP ADDICTION TO A TYPE II ERROR.

It’s really very elementary, my dear Watson.