On 31 Dec 2006 21:50:26 -0800, "Reef Fish"
large_nassua_grouper@yahoo.com> wrote:
I'll have a post about the Year of 2006 in sci.stat.* groups when I
have
more time. The good news for many who earned their Disqualification
Status during the last weeks of 2006 may be disqualified forever
because I have about reached the upperbound (established by the
learning capacity of the readership) of what I can teach the
readership
in these newsgroups in Topics in Applied Statistics -- about the Upper
Undergraduate level at a reasonably rated university.
I reached a point of diminishing return, with no more new questions
about new topics, but only repeated ERRORS from the Old Gang.
2007 will be the year I'll be doing some serious WRITING on my Data
Analysis textbook that was never published. Such a book (as well as
its self-contained software) will like benefit many more statisticians
and
students of statistics than those I've come to know in sci.stat.math
and
the other two groups since early 2005.
My work in such will be infinitely more satisfying and rewarding than
correcting the same Quackery and malpractice from a dozen of the
same posters
I kept my promise of ignoraning Afonso's posts of vacuous content and
NOISE from about 12 days till the end of 2006.
Afonso continued his noise in a thread of 50 posts
"Comparing fractions (or proportions)" consisting of him spewing his
nonsense while being corrected by Jack Tomsky and Old Mac User.
Not content with the noise there, Afonso started a thread SOLELY
intended to provoke, on December 30, "Bob Ling´s ignorance is clear"
and posted 5 posts before 2007. without my participation. :-)
I laughed at Luis A. Afonso's miserable failure to provoke while
making an Absolute Damn FOOL and ASS of himself, as was pointed
out by OMU before the New Year Bell dropped.
So, for Afonso's Idiocy and pure disruptive behavior, I award him the
FIRST (and probably my last) Supreme Ignoramus Award of 2007.
The incidence of statistical Quackery has certainly diminished in
these groups. I hope to see the trend continue and others to take
up where I leave off in being the Watch Dog of Statistical Quackery,
a tradition I am proud to be a part of, since Karl Pearson declared
it 70 years ago.
Wish you a Happy and Better New 2007.
-- Reef Fish Bob.
I've literally never participated in a flame war in 10 years of doing
Usenet, but FWIW here it now comes:
