Prosecution's Bug Expert Struggles On Stand:08/01/2002 Westefield Trial Nears Finish Lap!

Court TV ^ | August 1, 2002 | Harriet Ryan

[Freedom2specul8]

Their point was to factor in the moisture content...

[Ditter]

Thanks for the links but I have Webtv & can't seem to make those links work besides I don't have time to sit & listen. The difference is that I have not yet picked a side as far as guilt or innocence is concerned. The VD's certainly are guilty of leading a disgusting lifestyle that left their family open to disaster but I haven't formed an opinion as to their actual guilt in the murder of their child.

Neither have I formed an opinion on DW but as far as the DW fan club is concered, you are either with 'em or agin' 'em, but because I bring up their nastyness they assume I am not with 'em. They are partially right, I don't want the rest of FR (who is watching BTW) to lump me in with them.

[shezza]

Kemal (sp?) ran his tests at around 80-degrees F. How fast flies develop at 80...has sliding scale to see how different stages develop at different temps. Feldman has board on which they will mark each scientist's studies.

[UCANSEE2]

He won't even admit the chewed out holes in the little girl's body would provide additional target areas for the flies to lay their eggs.

But doesn't this say much about the rest of the trial. That, in the end it boils down to the plethora of BUGMEN and who can humiliate them the most for his side ?

[Freedom2specul8]

I'm lost cuz I was reading the thread...

dicussing someone's study..about flies and 80 degrees temp.

[Jaded]

Hey, that's the Stealth Ninja Freedom Fighters, not the DW Fan club!! Got that? Besides, that's the only way you get a secret decoder ring.

[james_hayes]

In this case the median and the mean are the same thing, because there are only two numbers (min & max). Either way, Golf miscalculated the median (or the mean).

[shezza]

Different sub-species of blowfly develop at different rates.

Greenburg's study used different temperatures: 22-degrees C (71-degrees F) and 29-degrees C (84-degrees F).

[Jaded]

Like that's new and different.

[Duan]

arithmetic mean a value that is computed by dividing the sum of a set of terms by the number of terms

av•er•age is exactly or approximately the quotient obtained by dividing the sum total of a set of figures by the number of figures --synonyms AVERAGE, MEAN, MEDIAN, NORM mean something that represents a middle point

me•di•an a value in an ordered set of values below and above which there is an equal number of values or which is the arithmetic mean of the two middle values if there is no one middle number

[Freedom2specul8]

There should be NO fan club thank you very much.

[UCANSEE2]

He doesn't know the difference between median and mean.

GEEZ, can you believe this? The guy doesn't know the difference.

I mean, everyone knows "median=how I like my steak"

and

"mean=people on FR that tell me I am wrong"

[shezza]

Measured how long it took each stage to develop under different temps. Temps can be too hot, or too cold. But within reason, the warmer the temps the faster they develop.

[spectre]

You're not doing such a bad job of pimping for the Prosecution, yourself. What's your stake in all of this? No agenda, yaya? Just a party crasher? Go figure..

sw

[Freedom2specul8]

would you agree that the median is more accurate?

[YaYa123]

Hey, I'm just an old time people watcher, and I'm just sharing my observations on the very common sense questions this guy is being asked, and how he's struggling mightedly not to have to answer.

I'll credit you with being more knowledgeable on the facts of the case, the other evidence, etc., but give me a little credit for careful listening. This is a great example of BS Observation 101.

[Jaded]

Not, perhaps in this lifetime, but yes, all will be revealed and punished.

[VRWC_minion]

What did you get out of that?

I wasn't following close enough to get anything out of it. What troubles me is that he didn't understand the difference in a basic math concept.

Either he was being deceitful or inadequately trained in math. In that I cannot fathom he doesn't know the difference my guess would be he was being deceitful because he realized his criticism wasn't warranted and didn't want to admit.

[I. Ben Hurt]

You are a quick-learner.

Thanking you so much. I'll agree it's cool when I see it has worked.