That's completely reasonable.  I suppose this was a bad example because it's 
difficult to decouple from its context.


On 06/07/2017 07:10 AM, Marcus Daniels wrote:
> In this example, the discussion was more about the composition of functional 
> relationships (ion transport, DNA repair) and their consequences than it is 
> about objects.   
> 
> My concern isn't that a calculation work as intended, it is that the desire 
> for formalism could be in opposition to quantitative prediction.   If your 
> goal is to weed out intellectual disability, it might be better to use a 
> statistical model method based on higher dimensional data (e.g. comparing raw 
> sequences), than one that invokes biological concepts.


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