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Tyyr wrote:

IanKennedy wrote:I'm sorry but that makes you look very foolish. You have just completely missed the meaning of a confidence interval.

Ian, I am well aware of the meaning of a confidence interval. I generally took the average of most of population figures in order to speed up the rough figures. Getting that f***ing pedantic about it just makes you look like an anal retentive twit.

It's not pedantic to explain what something is to someone who clearly demonstrated he new shit all about the topic he was preaching on. If you keep up that attitude around here you won't be here much longer.

Just one question. If you know what a CI is why would you make a statement like this which is clearly meaningless.

tyyr wrote:Actually the population figures I'm getting, from several sources (one of them the IWC itself) have confidence intervals of 90 to 95%. In other words the scientific community is pretty confident in their estimations.

IanKennedy wrote:

Tyyr wrote:

IanKennedy wrote:I'm sorry but that makes you look very foolish. You have just completely missed the meaning of a confidence interval.

Ian, I am well aware of the meaning of a confidence interval. I generally took the average of most of population figures in order to speed up the rough figures. Getting that f***ing pedantic about it just makes you look like an anal retentive twit.

It's not pedantic to explain what something is to someone who clearly demonstrated he new s**t all about the topic he was preaching on. If you keep up that attitude around here you won't be here much longer.

Wow, popping a temper much? Whats with the threats?

IanKennedy wrote:It's not pedantic to explain what something is to someone who clearly demonstrated he new s**t all about the topic he was preaching on. If you keep up that attitude around here you won't be here much longer.

Ah, so one population figure where I didn't go into the exhaustive detail in explaining confidence intervals as well as the implications there of, where I instead just truncated things so I don't have to write another two paragraphs explaining something you can find with two minutes of searching and I don't know shit about this? As opposed to what, all the other highly informed posts we get on this subject and others? That's what you're threatening to ban me for? Or is this threat because I didn't just knuckle under cause your name's in red?

IanKennedy wrote:Just one question. If you know what a CI is why would you make a statement like this which is clearly meaningless.

tyyr wrote:Actually the population figures I'm getting, from several sources (one of them the IWC itself) have confidence intervals of 90 to 95%. In other words the scientific community is pretty confident in their estimations.

The estimations I've been finding have typically been given with the 90 and 95 confidence intervals and the intervals are fairly tight. Yeah, I didn't go to all the trouble of writing out the intervals, explaining their significance, and doing all the percentages with the intervals and everything else. I cut it down and simplified it for use in a message board discussion. If someone wants to do the research themselves it takes two minutes of searching, if you're a slow typist. And yeah, if you come into a discussion like this and the only thing you've got is to bitch about a definition without even asking why it was stated that way and without adding anything to the discussion itself at all then yeah, that's what I call being a pedantic twit.

Dude, you presented the term incorrectly and got corrected. No biggie. Man up and move on.

Damn, everyone's in a mood.

*gets in his stealth speedboat and flees the area before he has to see Tyyr attempt to ram the HMS Banhammer

Wow, a ban over this is like using a nuke because two guys bumped and dropped their beers.

Deepcrush wrote:

Wow, a ban over this is like using a nuke because two guys bumped and dropped their beers.

Well, what kind of beer?

Update

Apparently, the Ady Gil hasn't sank at all, and was dumped in the antarctic by Sea Shepherd. Also, it appears to be leaking fuel or oil, meaning that SS is knowingly poluting the environment.

Irony, eh?

Mikey wrote:Dude, you presented the term incorrectly and got corrected. No biggie. Man up and move on.

I admitted as much and explained why. Doesn't mean I'm just going to roll over and accept being told I know nothing about this subject because of it. Especially when nothing about what I've been presenting was disputed, just incorrect use of the term.

Sionnach Glic wrote:Update

Apparently, the Ady Gil hasn't sank at all, and was dumped in the antarctic by Sea Shepherd. Also, it appears to be leaking fuel or oil, meaning that SS is knowingly poluting the environment.

Irony, eh?

And that is hilarious. This caught my eye though:

A Japanese vessel salvaged part of the severed Ady Gil hull and some arrows.

Arrows? Was someone in SS planning to go Robin Hood on their asses?

Sionnach Glic wrote:Update

Apparently, the Ady Gil hasn't sank at all, and was dumped in the antarctic by Sea Shepherd. Also, it appears to be leaking fuel or oil, meaning that SS is knowingly poluting the environment.

Irony, eh?

One of their other boats should probably go try to sink the Gil.

Yeah, the problem there is then how do they avoid a collision between their own ships as they race for the honor of being the one to put the Gil on the bottom?

That's what makes it great - they don't.

What was that boat actually doing out there in an enviroment it wasn't suited for, being sea filled with big chunks of ice?