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05/11/2007 10:15:55 PM · #1 |
this is at once sobering and depressing...link
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05/11/2007 10:23:38 PM · #2 |
| Thanks for that depressing thought.... 1 in a million indeed :-/ |
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05/11/2007 10:27:11 PM · #3 |
wow...that was a very interesting and so true.
Peace,
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05/11/2007 10:29:08 PM · #4 |
| That was posted here somewhere else i believe. Might be a different one only watched half of it. |
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05/11/2007 10:40:06 PM · #5 |
Originally posted by RainMotorsports:
That was posted here somewhere else i believe. Might be a different one only watched half of it. |
Nope, same one. |
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05/11/2007 10:55:00 PM · #6 |
Originally posted by TechnoShroom:
Originally posted by RainMotorsports:
That was posted here somewhere else i believe. Might be a different one only watched half of it. |
Nope, same one. |
I sadly had thoughts about the whole china having more honor students then we have total students.
Then again its easier to beat kids into learning then it is to yell at them and not be allowed to touch them...... |
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05/11/2007 10:59:46 PM · #7 |
| probably my favorite line.... "more than one out of twoare working for a company for whom they have worked less than 5 years" .... ummm more than 1 out of 2? wouldn't that mean that no one has worked for a company for more than 5 years...... and all the things about china's to 23% of learners being equal to the total number of people in the US... well that tends to happen when there's close to four times the population.... like the old saying goes, there's lies, damned lies and statistics.... |
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05/11/2007 11:14:33 PM · #8 |
Originally posted by Jewellian:
probably my favorite line.... "more than one out of twoare working for a company for whom they have worked less than 5 years" .... ummm more than 1 out of 2? wouldn't that mean that no one has worked for a company for more than 5 years...... and all the things about china's to 23% of learners being equal to the total number of people in the US... well that tends to happen when there's close to four times the population.... like the old saying goes, there's lies, damned lies and statistics.... |
"More than 1 out of 2 are working for a company for whom they have worked less than 5 years."
1 out of 2 would be 50%
More than 1 out of 2 would be a percentage between 50% and 100%. For example 60%.
Is the statement about the 25% of Chinese honor students being more numerous than the US student population misleading? I'm not sure where the lie is.
Message edited by author 2007-05-11 23:15:13. |
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05/12/2007 02:06:17 PM · #9 |
| It would have made more sense then to say that more than 50% of people ..... etc... and the statement about China isn't a lie, but it's like saying that the top 25% of American students is equal to a country 1/4 as populous.... if a country has 4 times the population of another then the top 25% of that country would equal the total population of the second country... no lie, just worded in such a way as to mislead. |
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05/12/2007 03:42:45 PM · #10 |
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05/12/2007 03:56:37 PM · #11 |
| yup statistics can prove anything.... even that what you just proved is wrong..... |
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05/12/2007 03:59:10 PM · #12 |
| Numbers lie and liars use numbers! |
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05/12/2007 04:14:58 PM · #13 |
I received 42 spam messages during the course of that presentation.
...and 5 more while writing the sentence above. |
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05/12/2007 04:31:35 PM · #14 |
Originally posted by Art Roflmao:
I received 42 spam messages during the course of that presentation.
...and 5 more while writing the sentence above. |
slow day? |
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05/12/2007 06:18:24 PM · #15 |
Off topic....
I found this video on the glumbert site, and I think Joey's video is much better. |
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05/12/2007 07:53:00 PM · #16 |
Soooo, if MySpace would be considered the 11th biggest country in the world.
How big of a country is DPC then?
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05/12/2007 07:54:42 PM · #17 |
Originally posted by American_Horse:
Soooo, if MySpace would be considered the 11th biggest country in the world.
How big of a country is DPC then? |
Smaller then the COUNTY i live in lol |
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05/12/2007 11:58:26 PM · #18 |
Originally posted by RainMotorsports:
Originally posted by American_Horse:
Soooo, if MySpace would be considered the 11th biggest country in the world.
How big of a country is DPC then? |
Smaller then the COUNTY i live in lol |
So, the size of, oh say, a large apartment complex, or even maybe, a small, medium risk prison?
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05/13/2007 02:36:01 AM · #19 |
Originally posted by Jewellian:
...if a country has 4 times the population of another then the top 25% of that country would equal the total population of the second country... no lie, just worded in such a way as to mislead. |
Which is what they said, still not following what the misleading part is. |
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05/13/2007 05:05:16 AM · #20 |
Originally posted by American_Horse:
Originally posted by RainMotorsports:
Originally posted by American_Horse:
Soooo, if MySpace would be considered the 11th biggest country in the world.
How big of a country is DPC then? |
Smaller then the COUNTY i live in lol |
So, the size of, oh say, a large apartment complex, or even maybe, a small, medium risk prison? |
More like the size of an oddly shaped group of small islands...
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05/13/2007 08:24:31 AM · #21 |
I've always heard it as...
Figures don't lie, but liars figure. |
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05/13/2007 10:33:17 AM · #22 |
| i think that video could have been better as a presentation. smaller size and clearer. |
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