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)
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.
To: MNJohnnie
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!)
To: MNJohnnie
Population of Belgium was 10 million last time I checked.
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?
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