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To: Sofa King

Irrational?

Why?

Are 'populations' NOT composed of individuals?

If my township census indicates that ALL persons living in it in are WASP's in 1980 and in 2000 .1% are Samoan, you could say the population has changed.

If you THEN claim that that individuals making up the population are the SAME, who is being 'irrational'?


227 posted on 12/10/2004 4:30:41 AM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going....)
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To: Elsie

So which WASP's in your population evolved into Samoans?


253 posted on 12/10/2004 7:09:21 AM PST by stremba
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To: Elsie
If my township census indicates that ALL persons living in it in are WASP's in 1980 and in 2000 .1% are Samoan, you could say the population has changed.

If you THEN claim that that individuals making up the population are the SAME, who is being 'irrational'?


The individuals are the same. Or are you saying that .1% of the individuals within the population were transmogrified from WASPs into Samoans?
269 posted on 12/10/2004 10:55:42 AM PST by Dimensio (http://angryflower.com/bobsqu.gif <-- required reading before you use your next apostrophe!)
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