Dear all,
I don't quite know what to say about the direction in which the initial
topic is getting derailed ... .
The substance of it is that an official (IUCr) online definition of a
statistic very much relied upon contained both a mathematical error and an
erroneous verbal description, and that this was promptly corrected through
an immediate mobilisation of good will (thank you Randy and Brian).
Why not leave it at that?
With best wishes,
Gerard.
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On Wed, Mar 11, 2020 at 04:53:25PM +0000, Eleanor Dodson wrote:
> Am I missing something? He? She? It? Are they now interchangeable?
>
> On Wed, 11 Mar 2020 at 16:15, Tim Gruene <tim.gru...@univie.ac.at> wrote:
>
> > Dear Gerard,
> >
> > you are wrong. 'he' in this context has as much information as 'someone'
> > and
> > 'person'. It does not refer to the sex of the person spoken about.
> >
> > Best regards,
> > Tim
> >
> > On Wednesday, March 11, 2020 4:44:47 PM CET Gerard DVD Kleywegt wrote:
> > > >>> Sorry to have taken this matter up in such a visible manner: I
> > > >>> noticed
> > > >>>
> > > >>> this very wrong formula in someone's paper, and that person then
> > told me
> > > >>> where he had found it. Having landed on that page, I didn't know
> > where
> > > >>> to go
> > > For the students:
> > >
> > > "someone" = systematic absence of information = 0 bits
> > > "person" = systematic absence of information = 0 bits
> > > "he" = 1 bit of information!
> > >
> > > --The other Gerard (1 bit of information!)
> > >
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