User talk:Drummond

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Drummond, looks like you're doing a great job. If you're looking for something to do, think about trying to reconcile the spliting of content between intelligence, IQ, and race and intelligence. They obviously overlap a great deal. --Rikurzhen 06:39, Dec 16, 2004 (UTC)

Correlation
Why must you insist that all probability distributions are discrete? Even the most non-mathematically oriented statistics courses included an account of the bell-shaped curve, i.e., the normal distribution, which is not discrete. Michael Hardy 01:34, 20 Dec 2004 (UTC)

... and non just discrete, but even having only finitely many possible values? You go on to include a proviso about the two standard deviations being finite. How in the world could they fail to be finite when the probability distributions have finite support? Michael Hardy 01:39, 20 Dec 2004 (UTC)

... oh, and the formula you gave isn't right even in the finite case unless you divide the numerator by N. Michael Hardy 01:40, 20 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Dear Michael (in case you weren't being rhetorical):

I never insisted anything. Rather, I posted a formula that, as you say, was incorrect (my error) but did not even exist before. 12 hours of wrongness now seem quite justified, as the article is measurably improved by your contribution. Thank you.

I did not include the proviso; it predated my contribution, as you would know if you took the time to read the revision history. Your pedantic tone is merely irritating; your inaccuracy in accusation is damnable. How in the world, indeed. --DAD 02:15, 20 Dec 2004 (UTC)

As a scientist :

Ask what is right for you, what is right for others and reconsider what is true.

But as a scientist :

If you get conviced that the law of gravity isn't true don't make experiments on yourself.

If you consider what's right for others :

Don't make experiments on anyone else.

Ericd 20:20, 25 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Thanks for this. (For what it's worth, my estimation of your character just shot up - way up :-) -- Uncle Ed (talk) July 1, 2005 19:34 (UTC)

Admin action
Hey Drummond, I saw your comment about admin action. Thanks for the support! (and thanks for the excellent work on the R&I article). I agree that the Wikipedia infrastructure hasn't worked very well here, and there's no reason that that has to happen. My own opinion is that Uncle Ed's request of an apology from you and Patrick was very clearly not justified, and ZM simply should have been blocked from editing R&I or its talk page for his many transgressions. I think Uncle Ed was trying to act as a friendly mediator when the situation required an enforcer. Cheers, Nectarflowed T 3 July 2005 03:54 (UTC)


 * Well, it didn't do any harm, either. Uncle Ed July 7, 2005 15:07 (UTC)

The Iowa experiment
I can't believe you never heard of Jane Elliott's Blue Eyes/Brown Eyes Exercise. It's like the Stanley Milgram thing, but with elementary school kids. (Oh, no, don't tell me you never heard of Milgram! I'm going to go out in the garden and eat worms . . . ) Uncle Ed July 7, 2005 15:07 (UTC)


 * No, no -- heard of, just couldn't remember the details. Thanks for the pointer. --DAD T 7 July 2005 15:41 (UTC)

FYI
Votes for deletion/Intelligence and public policy Rikurzhen
 * Thanks. Actually, I'm flattered!  --DAD T 07:02, 11 July 2005 (UTC)

3RR and Davis
I'm at my 3 revert limit on the Davis issue. --Rikurzhen 23:18, July 14, 2005 (UTC)

Thank you
Thanks for your persistence in the face of adversity with regard to the Race and intelligence article. I find it both amusing and disheartening how quick the public is to discount science and attempt to undermine and obsfucate it when it gives answers they don't like, while hailing its rigorous logic and impartiality in other fields. Remember that some of us out there are very appreciative and impressed with the quality of the work you are producing. Keep it up! --Malathion 18:34, 15 July 2005 (UTC)

New Arbitration case
Heya,

I have now opened the requested Arbitration case in which you are involved, here; please add any evidence you think would be useful to us in coming to our judgement onto the evidence sub-page.

Thank you very much in advance for your efforts,

James F. (talk) 19:15, 23 July 2005 (UTC)

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apa and wsj
people on the talk page are easily distracted, so i thought i'd leave this here. have you seen what we have written on the APA report already?

Zen-master Arbitration case closed
The Zen-master Arbitration case, Requests for arbitration/Zen-master, which you commented on, has been closed, with the following remedies:


 * Zen-master is placed on Probation for one year from the date of closing this case. Should any sysop feel that it is necessary that Zen-master be banned from an article where they are engaged in edit warring, removal of sourced material, POV reorganizations of the article, or any other activity which the user considers disruptive, they shall place a template at the top of the talk page of the article, and notify them on their talk page. The template shall include the ending date of the ban (one year from this decision) and a link to Probation. The template may be removed by any editor, including Zen-master, at the end of the ban. If Zen-master edits an article they are banned from, they may be briefly blocked from editing Wikipedia, up to a week for repeat offenses.
 * Zen-master is banned for one week for making personal attacks.

Yours,

James F. (talk) 16:13, 15 October 2005 (UTC)

source for image?
if you posted, would you please post the source code (I'm guessing it's R)? I want to know how you made transparency, and I also think it's nice if the wikipedia images made in free software have code (but nobody requires this). Pdbailey 17:17, 28 April 2006 (UTC)

Race and Intelligence
Once upon a time you contributed to this article. it is now up for mediation - I thought you might wich to check in on the mediation from time to time in case you had a constructive comment. It could be useful to get the perspective of someeone experienced yet who can look at current disputes with a fresh eye. Slrubenstein  |  Talk 01:43, 19 November 2009 (UTC)

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