I really hate to get into this bizarrely heated thread, but

"Reef Fish (Large Nassau Grouper)" wrote:
>
> Vince Brannigan wrote:
>
> > my point then and now is that neither 10 year olds nor Doctors can have a
> > "mean" because they are not mathematical quantities
>
> That is as profound as what you had said about the "mode"
>
> Brannigan > e.g. If you have 6 chickens 12 cows and 24 horses
> Brannigan > you cannot calculate a mean or median,
> Brannigan > but the mode is 24.
> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>
> Go on, Vince ... dig up all your law books and dictionaries and
> see you wiggle out of THIS blunder about which you argued for
> days that you were right.

Blunder? Mode is the most frequent occurrence in a set of data. Should
he have said that the mode is horse? That's not a rhetorical question,
I'm really asking.

>
> More Branniganisms,
>
> Brannigan> ok what is the mean of one brick two stones three
> Brannigan> rocks and four trees.
>
> Brannigan> alternatively what is the median of the above collection?
>
> Only Professor Brannigan knows.

I think he was only trying to expand on his point about apple and orange
mixing.

There must be something in this thread that would explain all the noise
and heat accompanying the reactions, but I can't find it. Bob, do you
always get so angry about disagreement?

>
> Vince, in the past few days you've done a nice job REMOVING your
> postings in the January 1999 thread (because I pointed others to
> it), from which the above quotes were taken! Why? Are you ashamed
> of them?
>
> You can remove your OWN posting, but you can't remove what *I*
> posted, citing your nonsense.
>
> NOW I see why you are out here mouth-dancing shamelessly, because
> you're going to remove them yourself from Deja.com!
>
> > Vince
> >
> > > > Brian "I just want to see Bob and Vince in a steel cage match" Wagner
> > >
> > > You're very welcome to get into the cage with Vince.
> > >
> > > Vince, meet Brian; Brian, have fun in the cage with Vince.
> > >
> > > I am glad I'll be going DIVING, for two weeks, VERY soon. That'll
> > > get me away from this Zoo. :-)
> > >