>Ray has rather taken things that I wrote rather out of context and also
>pasted together phrases from different arguments! He must be looking for
>a Sun readers' award this year.
I am complimented to be thought of in that class. Never underestimate
journalists' abilities to expose ideological positions lurking under a
facade of apparently reasoned argument.
As usual John is delighfully frank.
>We all know that some of
>the procedures regularly used in much of statistics makes sweeping
>assumptions, for example, of independence, of distributional form, of (no)
>prior knowledge but this goes on all the time.
More, more!!
Ray Thomas
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