Comments on: Random Letters http://www.californiapatriot.org/blog/2005/07/29/random-letters/ news and views from uc berkeley Fri, 21 Nov 2008 22:12:04 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.2 By: Ben N. http://www.californiapatriot.org/blog/2005/07/29/random-letters/#comment-1655 Ben N. Mon, 01 Aug 2005 18:01:12 +0000 http://www.californiapatriot.org/blog/2005/07/29/random-letters/#comment-1655 Pat, I think if you take a span over both modern times and recent history, and examining cases where Americans are not the victim, I think you will see that the terrorism statement is particularly wrong. See the IRA, partisan/underground resistance movements, Oklahoma City, communists, nationalists, abortion clinic bombings, the French anti-semitic movement, etc. Additionally, while Wooten's statement is somewhat ridiculous (it is important that criminal descriptions with gender be published), I have not see evidence that shows any correlation between gender and violence, but there has been none disproving a correlation. Simply asserting statistical "improbabilities" as "impossibilities", as Beetle points out, is very poor reasoning. Pat, I think if you take a span over both modern times and recent history, and examining cases where Americans are not the victim, I think you will see that the terrorism statement is particularly wrong. See the IRA, partisan/underground resistance movements, Oklahoma City, communists, nationalists, abortion clinic bombings, the French anti-semitic movement, etc.

Additionally, while Wooten’s statement is somewhat ridiculous (it is important that criminal descriptions with gender be published), I have not see evidence that shows any correlation between gender and violence, but there has been none disproving a correlation. Simply asserting statistical “improbabilities” as “impossibilities”, as Beetle points out, is very poor reasoning.

]]> By: Beetle http://www.californiapatriot.org/blog/2005/07/29/random-letters/#comment-1647 Beetle Sat, 30 Jul 2005 00:23:59 +0000 http://www.californiapatriot.org/blog/2005/07/29/random-letters/#comment-1647 My education gave me the fanciful impression that almost all penis-bearers are male-- a statistical impossibility since half the population is female. My education gave me the fanciful impression that almost all penis-bearers are male– a statistical impossibility since half the population is female.

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