tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21968349.post116480474665272665..comments2023-10-30T12:01:42.235+00:00Comments on my (elastic) gap year: Torture numbers, and they'll confess to anything. ~Gregg Easterbrookapprenticehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13784785172285984036noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21968349.post-1164883911015202012006-11-30T10:51:00.000+00:002006-11-30T10:51:00.000+00:00Thanks all. I wrote a big reply but blogger ate it...Thanks all. I wrote a big reply but blogger ate it!<BR/><BR/>Shinga thanks for looking in, I'd love to check out your blog, but blogger has overwritten your link, sigh!<BR/><BR/>Blkb, another thing we share, a love of stats.<BR/><BR/>Pi, a nice quote, which would be fine depending on who defines the morals and how they chose to legislate.apprenticehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13784785172285984036noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21968349.post-1164882359180676772006-11-30T10:25:00.000+00:002006-11-30T10:25:00.000+00:00'...this sacred truth - that the greatest happines...'...this sacred truth - that the greatest happiness of the greatest number is the foundation of morals and legislation.'<BR/>Francis HutchesonPathttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01529798893653033970noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21968349.post-1164857084023615872006-11-30T03:24:00.000+00:002006-11-30T03:24:00.000+00:00i came by here yesterday with the full intention o...i came by here yesterday with the full intention of commenting on your last post. but, i fell asleep and all my thoughts are lost. <BR/><BR/>at any rate, i loved this post. for some reason, i've always liked stats. perhaps because it was the first time in life i was good at math. or perhaps i like the way the #s can be used to "prove" just about any point so that i can then refute it. <BR/><BR/>oh, and i always find the Earth Project thing to be so poignant.blkbutterflyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02938145312798108811noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21968349.post-1164845024904579772006-11-30T00:03:00.000+00:002006-11-30T00:03:00.000+00:00What an enjoyable and thought-provoking collection...What an enjoyable and thought-provoking collection of vignettes on statistics! <BR/><BR/>Regards - ShingaShingahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18126212762767721751noreply@blogger.com