Karmacat: To Infinity And Beyond!

macgirl

cherisong wrote: »

HA! and guess what my job is?

Increasing engagement in the democratic process :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

Bimey, that must be like pushing water uphill. With a sieve

MrsMoo2U

macgirl wrote: »

Bimey, that must be like pushing water uphill. With a sieve

:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:
Love it and may just quote that in my next Performance Review. So true.

Karmacat

Wow! cherisong, please don't apologise for anything - it was you that sparked off this whole amazing debate, not me, this is great! My brain is absolutely not in gear at the mo, so any comments of mine are simplistic in the extreme

I remember this one from Z: "Always be careful about life-expectancy statistics. If a child dies at birth and a bloke lives to 100, live expectancy is 50." Absolutely - I'm a genealogist, remember. In one family grave from about 150 years ago, there are two burials from 100 years ago - a 2 month old baby, and his 84 year old great grandmother. The baby would have been - is, I suppose - my great uncle.

cherisong - what Barclays have done to you :eek::eek: I'm glad they're admitting and correcting some of their mistakes, but thats just dreadful. I had another letter waiting for me when I got home, repeating what I'd been told, and also that its because of information from Experian - I'll have to join on a trial and see what the dickens they're saying about me another piece of admin to fiddle around with.

It was lovely to stay at my sister's last night - she's actually gone to France at the mo but her daughter was there - who is about the same age as slowlyfading, I think :rotfl:- and we had a long talk, there's a lot of extended family stuff to be talked about at the moment.

But I was *so* glad to get home this morning! And I'm not stepping over the doorstep again, not even to buy chocolate

gilligansyle

Karmacat wrote: »

My brain is absolutely not in gear at the mo, so any comments of mine are simplistic in the extreme

^^^
These 2 comments are probably connected


But I was *so* glad to get home this morning! And I'm not stepping over the doorstep again, not even to buy chocolate

This only works if you already have chocolate in the house enjoy being in your own place again, some day soon it will be exactly what you want.

Karmacat

Thanks Gill! Been wandering about on here, and even thats tiring me out .... I think I might just call it a day and lie down.

bye for now

xxx

se999

Following on from ZTD on statistics, I read 'How to lie with statistics' when I was young, I made sure my 2 DS's read it at an early age too. Not sure if it's been updated, but it does make it so that you are always sceptical when people mention statistics or use graphs to justify their theories and actions.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/How_to_Lie_with_Statistics

There's also the classic quote, about "Lies, Damned Lies & Statistics.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lies,_damned_lies,_and_statistics

MrsMoo2U

I once had a manager who told me that you can make statistics say anything you want them to and then went on to prove it by doubling his staff whilst we actually had less work! I later went on to manage a team and deal with statistical data for the region when two teams merged and I was up against the person in the other team dealing with their regions statistics I managed to prove that my team were doing twice as much work with half the staff. He had been pulling the wool for years by showing some stats and not others. I now take every stat with a pinch of salt.
Good that you are showing your DS how to read stats. Too many people are hoodwinked.

Karmacat

Wow.

I, on the other hand, have been looking at my emails on my Michael Shanks group, and found pix of me on a fanpage dated from February 2002. Three of them - and I'm talking with Michael Shanks! I'm very happy

taxi73

that must've brought back some happy memories

gilligansyle

You must have enjoyed reading back over old stuff.

Good to bring back memories.

I have a photo somewhere of me talking to Linford Christie at a function where he was the after dinner speaker, and every time I see it I can 'hear' parts of his speech, even though it was over 10 years ago.