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To: MineralMan
I can't figure out why a cop would put a choke hold on some woman outside her house just because she called 911 over a domestic dispute.

What you are doing here, MM, is failing to "beware the statistics of small samples". If you had a thousand randomly-selected women who had called 911 over a domestic dispute and someone claimed that the cops acted wrongly in most or all of those cases then it would make much more sense to react as you did than in the present instance where you have a single, self-selected individual relating their own experiences. Ask yourself the question "If they made the call and the cop acted correctly, would they be more or less likely to describe their experience on this thread than if the cops had behaved wrongly", etc. The bottom line here is that you are calling a fellow FReeper a liar (and doing so in a mocking, belittling way, despite the poster's claim that she was traumatized by the incident), and you are doing so based on absolutely no evidence whatsoever. That sucks big time, dude!

27 posted on 09/28/2006 1:34:07 PM PDT by rogue yam
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To: rogue yam

I called nobody a liar. I merely suggested that there may have been more to the story than was told. Did I do it in a mocking way? I did.


31 posted on 09/28/2006 1:48:30 PM PDT by MineralMan (Non-evangelical Atheist)
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To: rogue yam
I'm late to this party but thanks for the nice exposition of how an anecdote is one thing and a statistic is quite another.

I kind of like the moral conclusion you draw too.

Two thumbs up. Fine family fare.

49 posted on 12/07/2006 2:09:14 PM PST by Mad Dawg (Now we are all Massoud)
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