Re: Horse too fast!!

[Truman Prevatt <truman.prevatt@netsrq.com>]

Personal experience with a samll number of animals is the best way to
determine how to best manage said animals.  On the other hand personal
experience is the worst method for inferring to the population as a
whole.

When I teach statistics I introduce the subject of inference by
"proving" the Prevatt Theorem of The Weak Law of Small Numbers.  It
goes: "Given a small non random sample, any damn thing can happen and
usually does."  The proof is trivial.

Truman

Maggie Mieske wrote:

> Personal experience is the best research.
> Maggie

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Truman Prevatt
Brooksville, FL

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