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Igel

(37,628 posts)
9. No, no.
Sun Feb 21, 2016, 11:31 AM
Feb 2016

Predictive statistics based on unproven assumptions that say I'm right must always be valued over descriptive statistics that say I'm wrong.

I predicted last year that I'd have $20k in the bank by now for a new car. I had my assumptions and a baseline. Therefore, when the bank says I have far less than that in the bank the bank must be mistaken and stole my money. (Even if there's no mechanism I can show that I had the money and the bank actually took it. Either the bank's lying, or they stole it.)

And, yes, if I applied that level of innumeracy to literacy skills, eyed bea a rightn reel goodnow, lighk juan've demdair proepheshunl riduhs.

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