In Reply to: Verrry good. Did your mommy help you with that? posted by geoffkait on May 3, 2011 at 18:27:31:
Ask YOUR mommy to allow you spend some extra time on the computer tonight and try an experiment with your picture:There are two colors, so you'd expect a relatively equal number of red or white GNP's touching a given GNP.
So, go through your pic (you supplied it, so it can't have been manipulated, right? Plus, this seems important to you) and count how many total pink and how many total white, and for each GNP count how many red and how many white GNP's are touching it.
Do this for every GNP and see what your stats show.
I think you are assuming clustering beyond random fluctuation. I bet you'll see a plot that ends up looking like a normal distribution curve.
Ask your mommy to help you with it if it seems too hard or conflicts with your Sheldrake religion.
Once you become a more discerning person, you can then do the same trick with the pic of the Red Hots and check the groupings of the subtypes of Red Hots in that pic. (Hint, there are more than two subtypes, see if you can figure it out.)
Edits: 05/05/11
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Follow Ups
- "Did your mommy help you with that?" Yes, she did, she told me to go learn about things. - Enophile 17:46:10 05/05/11 (7)
- I gather you are secretly in love with Sheldrake. nt - geoffkait 03:56:59 05/06/11 (6)
- Your acknowledgement of your erroneous hypothesis is noted. - Enophile 09:37:14 05/06/11 (5)
- The unscientific minded often refer to science as religion. - geoffkait 11:38:28 05/06/11 (4)
- The religious minded often refer to science dismissively - it's part of the requirement of their faith. - Enophile 11:44:47 05/06/11 (3)
- What on Earth is wrong with you? - geoffkait 13:49:13 05/06/11 (2)
- Full retreat from geoffie. - Enophile 14:39:12 05/06/11 (1)
- Bite me, goofball. - geoffkait 15:24:44 05/06/11 (0)