[lbo-talk] Thoughts on the Tea Party

[Alan Rudy]

1) in quantitative methods classes around the world the following argument
is universally made: garbage in, garbage out.  I know people who have spent
their whole careers trying to understand agriculture on the basis of the
staggeringly incomplete, misconceived and internally contradictory USDA ag
production data seeking the correct understanding... it doesn't all come out
in the wash there or here.
2) you just couldn't post without that first and last sentence could you?...
because you're not interesting in establishing your superiority, greater
interest in correctness or intentions to make friends or piss people off...
you're about truth, not friends, being correct, not pissing people off, and
all the while clearly expressing your elite status here all the while
calling us elitists... nice, good luck organizing people with that technique
as your MO.
3) I was in the process of writing another not-pissy or snide response to
something else when you sent this, what's the point.  Good luck with your
truthy hopiness.

On Thu, Apr 22, 2010 at 7:26 AM, brad <babscritique at gmail.com> wrote:


> Alan, I am not here to discuss personality issues and I don't wish to make
> friends or piss people off. It is funny that you claim I am wasting time
> attempting to understand the TP and the lefts understanding of the TP, when
> you and others would want to waste time telling me I am wasting time, ask
> me
> over and over why I want to know (even after I have answered), and spend a
> bunch of time making sure that I and others can't figure out what's going
> on.  I originally questioned the interpretation of the poll data (yes, I
> know there are big problems with the polls but until someone goes out and
> does some better research on it, it's all we got) and posed some other
> numbers and a different interpretation.  I apologize if I did this in a
> rude
> manner or came off as too correcting.  I was just trying to figure it out,
> however stupid I am for trying to understand things.
>
> Brad
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Alan P. Rudy
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Central Michigan University
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