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To: JTN

Comparing 300 million Americans to 40 million Belgians is stupid. We have a larger sample OBVIOUSLY we will score worse.


37 posted on 01/13/2006 4:37:02 AM PST by MNJohnnie (Misuse of the Commerce Clause is the root of all Congressional evil)
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To: MNJohnnie
We have a larger sample OBVIOUSLY we will score worse.

I hope you are being fasceitious, because if not, your knoweledge of statitistics is that of someone taught by someone protected by a teacher's union. If you randomly sample, once your sample size gets above about 30 or so the mean of the distibrition in IQ could maybe change 2 or 3 points with the next 300 million samples.

44 posted on 01/13/2006 4:50:14 AM PST by AndyJackson
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They are also a comparatively wealthy and heterogeneous society. That definitely gives them a big advantage over us as well.
48 posted on 01/13/2006 5:10:00 AM PST by Theoden (Fidei Defensor - Deus vult!)
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To: MNJohnnie

Population of Belgium was 10 million last time I checked.


64 posted on 01/13/2006 6:08:22 AM PST by alanthemanc
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To: MNJohnnie
Comparing 300 million Americans to 40 million Belgians is stupid. We have a larger sample OBVIOUSLY we will score worse.

You're joking, right?

67 posted on 01/13/2006 6:13:29 AM PST by ModelBreaker
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