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To: Junior; general_re
I can't handle the pressure of exams. I'm switching sides. A creationist doesn't need to know anything. No more teachers, no more books! Free at last, free at last! Now that I think about it, there really are a lot of gaps in the fossil record. Tornado in a junkyard. Look at the odds!

I'm ready. Bring on the exam.

1,156 posted on 12/06/2002 10:30:11 AM PST by PatrickHenry
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To: PatrickHenry
Heh. If you need extra help, here's your cheat sheet - a lower E-value indicates a more significant match - i.e., the closer the E-value is to 0, the less likely the match is due to random chance. So for post 1146, an E-value of 2e-04 is indicates that a random match between MTH1022 and motA is rather unlikely. But an E-value of 2.5 indicates that a random match between MTH1022 and the string "imadethesethingssmartlyinfiveyearsintheskyfindthesecret" is rather more likely, and hence not as significant.

Soooooo, one match is significant, and the other is not. So here's the pop-quiz: What can we say about the relationships (if any) between motA and MTH1022, and motA and the string "imadethesethingssmartlyinfiveyearsintheskyfindthesecret"?

1,157 posted on 12/06/2002 10:43:36 AM PST by general_re
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To: PatrickHenry
Do you know the difference between possibility(fantasy) and probability(reality)?
1,158 posted on 12/06/2002 10:47:26 AM PST by f.Christian
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