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To: A_perfect_lady

“Gentlemen, may I introduce you two...?”

May I introduce you to the concept of the representative sample?

If you want to draw inferences about a large population—for instance, human males—your sample must be representative of that population.

You cannot draw credible inferences if your sample is limited to a small group of *self-selected* subjects, such as the small number of men who chose to make such remarks on this thread.

It would be equally valid—which is to say, completely invalid—if I decided on the basis of your remarks that all women have a problem with men.


98 posted on 12/22/2011 11:09:32 PM PST by dsc (Any attempt to move a government to the left is a crime against humanity.)
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To: dsc

I just wanted to see if you’d start in on a man named PapaBear with your tough, macho attitude, and tell him about his broad brush. I figured you only talked that way to women and it looks like I was right.


99 posted on 12/22/2011 11:31:02 PM PST by A_perfect_lady
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