Re: Gender ratios.

["Dave Wood" <daviduu at btinternet_com>]

Bill,
I agree with all you say.
I thought I'd asked for what you suggest...  :-)
The old problem with sending requests bit by bit I suppose.
Thanks,
Dave Wood,
BKA 550
AKA 08684
----- Original Message -----
From: "Bill Shenefelt" <william_shenefelt at verizon.net>
To: <killietalk at aka_org>
Sent: Wednesday, July 02, 2003 12:06 AM
Subject: Re: Gender ratios.


> Dave;
> I do appreciate getting some data and information, but....
> The only thing that lies more than uncontrolled data is the statistician
who
> manipulates it into a resulting prediction(without knowing how it was
> gathered)  PLEASE at least be sure to have people report both matched
pairs
> AND non pairs as well as apecies or at least Genera so  that it might be
> possible to see if some Genera are more likely to respond to pair raising
> than others..  If there is enough data, the circumstances like
temperature,
> water condition and all may be sort of ignored as a random variable.  If
> only "positive" results (pairs) are reported, you have nothing at
all.except
> possibly misleading information. ps, it is KISS(tupid) .  As a report, I
> once raised two fry together and got a pr of Diapteron georgiae.  Started
> with more but only these two individual fry survived beyond a week from
that
> particular hatch.
> Bill Shenefelt
> http://shene.killi.net
>
> > SO, lets play KIS. (Keep It Simple) , and settle for any results that we
> can
> > get.
> > I assume that people will use common sense, and report as honestly as
they
> > can, 'cause there's no prizes for getting the best results....whatever
> > "best" may be.
> > By leaving members their independence we should end up with a wide range
> of
> > results, which will prove something or nothing. Let's just have fun.
>
>
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