[extropy-chat] IRAQ: Weapons pipeline to Syria

[Mike Lorrey]

--- Alfio Puglisi <puglisi at arcetri.astro.it> wrote:

> Of course the standard deviation is so high that the actual number
> could be anywhere.

That is the crux of the problem, isn't it? They are using a handful of
cases to extrapolate for an entire nation, to a degree that even
presidential pollsters wouldn't dare. 20 cases can only give you a
reliable estimate for a population of 2000, not 50 million.

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Mike Lorrey
Vice-Chair, 2nd District, Libertarian Party of NH
"Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom.
It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves."
                                      -William Pitt (1759-1806) 
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