We are not of the belief that anyone coming into office in the current economic environment would be foolish enough to focus on gun ownership and gun control. We will fight anyone who tries to curtail the 2nd Amendment, why on earth do you think we purchased a gun store and gun range 6 years ago? To put it out of business?
No, but there are reasons terms like "shooting yourself in the foot" exist in the common vernacular.
And if you think the rights of the populance that Comrade Urkel wants to curtail are somehow everything BUT the right to bear arms, I have the Brooklyn Bridge Sales Company for you on line 1.
"The armory was even better. Above the door was a sign: You dream, we build." -Mark Owen, No Easy Day
"My assault weapon won't be 'illegal,' it will be 'undocumented.'" -KL
cu74 wrote:Proof once again that half of the people you meet on any given day are below average???
Technically speaking, half the "people you meet every day" are below the median not the average; which is more properly titled the "mean".
Given a standard gaussian distribution, about 68% of values are within one standard deviation of the mean, about 95% of the values are within two standard deviations, and about 99.7% lie within three standard deviations.
With a large sample size, and a relatively small "normal" variation; about 32% of all people are within a statistically insignificant difference from "average" (less than 1/2 standard deviation).
Thus, only about only about 16% are "below average", to a statistically significant degree.
However, I'd guess that you have to be at least one standard deviation above the median to have understood that.
That was an attempt at humor, not a Sadistical Techniques statement, (you using that fine-grind French Roast between your cheek and gum again, Chris? ) I do understand, but since the 16% don't know what "mean" is and the next 32% don't know what 'median" is, I will stay with "average" when using that little one-liner........
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CByrneIV wrote:
However, I'd guess that you have to be at least one standard deviation above the median to have understood that.
And if one can derive it, does that make one two SDs above the median?
Oh, and Chris, you're still an overbearing know-it-all ...... and I say that with reverence.
Oh, and another thing, if you're going on the basis that 32% of the population is within 1/2 of a SD from the mean, i.e. 16% are within +1/2 and 16% are within -1/2, wouldn't that suggest that 34% (50 - 16) of the population is *below the statistically significant mean*?
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Perhaps he's not a one issue voter and, for him, the positives out-weighed the negatives.
It's not like the Stupid Party put up a Hard Right Conservative.
If time, chance and random process can produce a platypus why not an ammo tree?
CByrneIV wrote:Thus, only about only about 16% are "below average", to a statistically significant degree.
Yeah, but some of those people who are "below average" significantly are REALLY below average, some to the extent that they should be put down like animals.
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A person properly schooled in right and wrong is safe with any weapon. A person with no idea of good and evil is unsafe with a knitting needle, or the cap from a ballpoint pen.
I remain pessimistic given the way BATF and the anti gun crowd have become tape worms in the guts of the Republic. - toad
And Chris, I don't know if you're quite correct about it not being below average, as by definition, 100 is "average" with IQ tests rejiggered occasionally to meet this definition/reference standard.
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) I do understand, but since the 16% don't know what "mean" is and the next 32% don't know what 'median" is, I will stay with "average" when using that little one-liner........ 
