Re: History of French

From: Nathan Sanders (nsanders.DIE.SPAM_at_wso.williams.edu)
Date: 09/20/04 

Date: Mon, 20 Sep 2004 14:35:25 GMT

In article <414FCA91.7021@alphalink.com.au>,
 Jacques Guy <jguy@alphalink.com.au> wrote:

> Nathan Sanders wrote:
>
> > > How were
> > > those 6,000 selected apart from, hey, they just happened
> > > to live not too far from my research department? And to
>
> > Depends on the researcher, of course. Some samples are chosen more
> > randomly than others.
>
> What??? "MORE randomly"? Is that what they teach you at
> Williams College? Demand your money back.

Williams is my employer, not my teacher. Blame MIT and UCSC for my
education.

Consider the following sequences:

A = <0, 1, 6, 8, 3, 8, 5, 3, 5, 7>
B = <1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 3, 9, 2, 4, 2>

In A, each number was chosen from 0 to 9 at random.

In B, I consciously selected the first five numbers, and generated the
last five at random.

How is "more randomly" not an appropriate description for how A was
constructed in comparison to B?

Nathan 

-- 
Nathan Sanders
Linguistics Program       nsanders@wso.williams.edu                           
Williams College          http://wso.williams.edu/~nsanders
Williamstown, MA 01267

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