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"Team Ada: Ada Advocacy Issues (83 & 95)" <[log in to unmask]>
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"W. Wesley Groleau x4923" <[log in to unmask]>
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Wed, 15 Mar 2000 21:06:47 -0500
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"W. Wesley Groleau x4923" <[log in to unmask]>
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>   0% confidence means "I have no useful data".  50% means "I may
> be wrong, but my data indicates ...".

Depends also on what the data is.  If the data says "C is better than Ada"
but it's 50% confidence, doesn't that mean there's a 50% chance Ada is
better than C ?

Our problem is that the data is far better than 50%, and it's in favor of
Ada, yet Ada is still rejected.  Often for the valid reasons already
stated, but often out of pure stupidity.

--
Wes Groleau
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~wgroleau

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