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XemaSab

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16. Wouldn't one also expect the trend to go closer to 1:1 each decade?

Reply to caraher (Reply #15)

Thu Jul 12, 2012, 04:49 PM

Jul 2012

If you have 10 years of data (or fish, or kids, or pecan trees, or whatever) the odds of the 11th one being either higher or lower than the other 10 is pretty good. It's not a big data set.

If you have 100 years of data (or fish, or kids, or pecan trees, or whatever), then the odds of the 101st thing breaking the records is a lot smaller.

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I have a comment on these temperature record pie charts: [View all] phantom power Jul 2012 OP

you ain't seen nothin yet limpyhobbler Jul 2012 #1

We should start flamingdem Jul 2012 #11

It's Gore's fault Doctor_J Jul 2012 #2

And he is making $Millions$ doing it. rgbecker Jul 2012 #3

Jesus, that really drives the point home, doesn't it? nt GliderGuider Jul 2012 #4

Shamelessly shared on FB nt GliderGuider Jul 2012 #5

I just realized I forgot link, which I corrected in the OP phantom power Jul 2012 #9

I'm not convinced that in the absence of Man, the Highs and lows would be equaling out Demeter Jul 2012 #6

it certainly assumes the distribution is symmetric, or nearly so. phantom power Jul 2012 #7

Pretty cool - it's kind of like the clock on the cover of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists . . hatrack Jul 2012 #8

If those charts were clocks pscot Jul 2012 #10

The catastrophic decline of the arctic ice cap is causing... joshcryer Jul 2012 #12

As you say, it would be easy to overlook the cumulative effect ... Nihil Jul 2012 #13

Or something along the lines of XemaSab Jul 2012 #14

I think one of the articles linked from the one in the OP has a clearer picture caraher Jul 2012 #15

Wouldn't one also expect the trend to go closer to 1:1 each decade? XemaSab Jul 2012 #16

I think that's right caraher Jul 2012 #17