On Sun, Mar 21, 2004 at 10:50:38PM +0000, Richard Baker wrote: > I don't know about that. Even so, I still don't think that would > disprove the Fool's assertion. In this case, There could be very > many smart people like Debbi indeed and still the atheists could in > principle all be all smarter than average.
True, if Debbie's sample is non-representative of the group as a whole, and skewed to the high side of the population. I guess I also assumed Debbie wouldn't pick a biased sample, so the average of the sample is a good estimate of the average of the population :-) > (There's also an effect along these lines caused by relative sizes > of the atheist and non-atheist populations, which it seems to me is > skewed towards non-atheists in the US.) Yes, I think atheists are less than 10% in America (much less, I think). -- Erik Reuter http://www.erikreuter.net/ _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
