USMB Coffee Shop IV

[Ringel05]

This one's my favorite (next to regular old vanilla that is.......).

We like Tillamook too and it is made from really good stuff. They are making Texas Blue Bell ice cream again after a long lay off and we're getting that in this area. Some say the best ice cream in the world and I do like that it comes in a whole half gallon container instead of the 3/4 half gallon as most ice cream is packaged.

But you compare the ingredients in Blue Bell with those in Tillamook, and Tillamook wins.

I agree except that Blue Bell is waaaaayyyyyy too sweet for my tastes.

 

[Ringel05]

Just got back a little while ago from putting two new tires on the back of the truck...... Almost $300 and that was on sale.

 

[Ringel05]

A little about the house we're renting, I mentioned an alleyway earlier in the week, well it's more of a gravel road and beyond that is a field roughly a mile and a half deep by a half mile wide, we're near the western edge of the town. There is a new apartment complex roughly a half a mile back and to the right and some other buildings beyond that with the pecan groves starting at the mile and a half border. The house is near the same square footage as the one in Albuquerque with all tile and Pergo type flooring with a fireplace we will probably never use. The bathrooms are slightly bigger here as is the master bath and my "office". There's a cinder block wall around the back yard with a cinder block storage unit that's double the size we had in Albuquerque. The kitchen is bigger also but the windows, though well maintained are the original single pane window although the owner put in a new glass sliding door so that's a definite plus. Just the other day the owner/landlord sent over her yard guy to mow the weeds and grass for us, they've been really good and helpful.
The wife's job so far this week is orientation and we're getting used to getting up at 6 AM again....... not fun.....
I'm getting to know the town with having to run errands but in a town of about 50k people just how much getting to know does one have to do......

 

[Montrovant]

I just got done with my accounting final. I didn't go through all of the chapter reviews, I just did the overall mandatory review and hoped I'd be able to kind of wing it. I got a helpful email from my professor a couple of days ago letting me know that I needed to get a 30 to end up with a B for the class, or an 80.2 to get an A. There were plenty of things I didn't remember or didn't remember fully, so I wasn't confident about getting the 80. I ended up with an 84.8, which is apparently about 9 points better than the class average so far.

This class was an 8 week one, but my other 4 classes are 10 week, so I still have a couple of weeks until I finish the semester.

Oh, and I did not get my car's A/C fixed. My friend didn't feel confident about doing it, especially as it would be hard to get at everything without going from underneath or taking out various pieces. Unfortunately, so far my second option has not even come to look at it. I'm not sure what I'll do next.

 

[Dajjal]

Wooh scary ! Its Friday the thirteenth, and its a full moon. The witches will be busy tonight.

For myself I could not sleep, but while laying awake I thought up how we can send the human race to other stars systems. Its a very simple idea which is almost do able with existing technology.

You build an atomic powered space ship and man it with artificially intelligent robots. You then load it with frozen human eggs and sperm. Also farmyard animals and crop seeds. The robots would fly the ship to a habitable planet, then build farms and create animals from the frozen stock. When they had suitable habitation and food supplies the robots would create human babies and rear them and teach them.

The mother ship computer would have all human knowledge in its memory banks and the space ship would require no oxygen , fuel, water or food. Its do able, don't you think?

 

[Dajjal]

Todays a special day. Not only may I become the father of the universe with my idea of seeding space with humans, it is exactly five years to the day since I had a drink of alcohol.

 

[Dajjal]

Hmm ! I have just thought of a problem with sending frozen eggs into space. I was thinking test tube baby's are grown in a test tube. But actually when the egg is fertilized the egg is planted into a female womb to grow.
To grow eggs to baby's without a womb would require technology we probably don't have, and may never be able to create.

 

[saveliberty]

Just got back a little while ago from putting two new tires on the back of the truck...... Almost $300 and that was on sale.

So sort of like boat dock bumpers?

 

[Nosmo King]

Last evening I watched the fireflies perform one of their last shows of the summer. Their courtship is growing dim, but they still manage to amaze. Across St. Clair Avenue from my brother's house is scenic Riverview Cemetery. The cemetery is atop the hill and a slope slides gentry down to the curb of the street. Along that stretch rises a line of hemlocks soaring to fifty feet tall. Along their base is a string of rhododendrons forming a sort of hedge. If you watch above the rhododendrons and beneath the boughs of the hemlocks at the right time of the evening, you can watch the fireflies court and spark one another.

The grass is filled with them while others hover a few feet above. The landward bugs begin to light, sweeping up the hill like a magic carpet. The airborne bugs respond like fluorescent confetti.

When I was a young man they would have laser light shows at the Buhl Planetarium in Pittsburgh. Laser Floyd or Laser Zeppelin would amaze a couple hundred stoners on a Friday night. It kept us off the street and gave us something to do. Fireflies in a cemetery now serve as a wonderful light show. Back to basics, I suppose.

Soon the cicadas will emerge and rattle the evening soundscape. Their grotesque carcasses will litter the ground and then, as soon as they come out, they will burrow back into the earth from whence they came.

The other big change to the soundscape in these parts is the rehearsals of the ELHS Marching Band (go Potters!). They begin with the drum section banging out cadences and thumping out rhythm. By 10:00 am, the brass section is ready to blare forth a melody. I don't recognize it yet. They are definitely playing in unison, but they seem to have the musical flare of the wind whistling across empty Pepsi can snagged on a barbed wire fence.

One of my Game Night buddies has a son in the Pride of the Potters marching band. Perhaps he can help me identify what song they are so diligently and relentlessly rehearsing.

 

[Foxfyre]

Todays a special day. Not only may I become the father of the universe with my idea of seeding space with humans, it is exactly five years to the day since I had a drink of alcohol.

So Happy Birthday, Dajjal! Those winning the battle birthdays are special too.

 

[Foxfyre]

Anybody feeling extra compassionate today?

 

[Montrovant]

Does anyone here have experience with statistics? I am getting annoyed by a problem in my healthcare statistics class regarding the difference between descriptive and inferential statistics and I'm looking for help understanding why I'm wrong (or possibly why the teacher is wrong).

 

[gallantwarrior]

A little about the house we're renting, I mentioned an alleyway earlier in the week, well it's more of a gravel road and beyond that is a field roughly a mile and a half deep by a half mile wide, we're near the western edge of the town. There is a new apartment complex roughly a half a mile back and to the right and some other buildings beyond that with the pecan groves starting at the mile and a half border. The house is near the same square footage as the one in Albuquerque with all tile and Pergo type flooring with a fireplace we will probably never use. The bathrooms are slightly bigger here as is the master bath and my "office". There's a cinder block wall around the back yard with a cinder block storage unit that's double the size we had in Albuquerque. The kitchen is bigger also but the windows, though well maintained are the original single pane window although the owner put in a new glass sliding door so that's a definite plus. Just the other day the owner/landlord sent over her yard guy to mow the weeds and grass for us, they've been really good and helpful.
The wife's job so far this week is orientation and we're getting used to getting up at 6 AM again....... not fun.....
I'm getting to know the town with having to run errands but in a town of about 50k people just how much getting to know does one have to do......

How are your furkids taking the move? I don't recall you having mentioned them lately.

 

[gallantwarrior]

Wooh scary ! Its Friday the thirteenth, and its a full moon. The witches will be busy tonight.

For myself I could not sleep, but while laying awake I thought up how we can send the human race to other stars systems. Its a very simple idea which is almost do able with existing technology.

You build an atomic powered space ship and man it with artificially intelligent robots. You then load it with frozen human eggs and sperm. Also farmyard animals and crop seeds. The robots would fly the ship to a habitable planet, then build farms and create animals from the frozen stock. When they had suitable habitation and food supplies the robots would create human babies and rear them and teach them.

The mother ship computer would have all human knowledge in its memory banks and the space ship would require no oxygen , fuel, water or food. Its do able, don't you think?

You've been reading Robert Heinlein then?

 

[Foxfyre]

Does anyone here have experience with statistics? I am getting annoyed by a problem in my healthcare statistics class regarding the difference between descriptive and inferential statistics and I'm looking for help understanding why I'm wrong (or possibly why the teacher is wrong).

My daughter is the statistics expert and unfortunately I am not. But ironically I had a discussion with somebody else--mostly related to political polling--and looked it up. This article seems to be very comprehensive, but in all honesty didn't help me a whole lot. (I didn't take a lot of time really studying it though.) Maybe it will make more sense to you?
Difference Between Descriptive and Inferential Statistics: Descriptive vs Inferential Statistics Compared

 

[Montrovant]

Does anyone here have experience with statistics? I am getting annoyed by a problem in my healthcare statistics class regarding the difference between descriptive and inferential statistics and I'm looking for help understanding why I'm wrong (or possibly why the teacher is wrong).

My daughter is the statistics expert and unfortunately I am not. But ironically I had a discussion with somebody else--mostly related to political polling--and looked it up. This article seems to be very comprehensive, but in all honesty didn't help me a whole lot. (I didn't take a lot of time really studying it though.) Maybe it will make more sense to you?
Difference Between Descriptive and Inferential Statistics: Descriptive vs Inferential Statistics Compared

Unfortunately, the problem is that I have looked up the definitions of descriptive and inferential statistics over and over again, and I still am convinced that my teacher is wrong regarding a particular problem we had. At this point the teacher is annoyed and doesn't want to discuss it anymore, which is pretty frustrating because I ended up failing an assignment with only 6 questions because I got 2 wrong, but I still don't see how they can be wrong.

Basically, there's a sample of 500 people from New York City. 210 have O+ blood. Then you get a statement that 42% of the people of NYC have O+ blood, and are asked if that is descriptive or inferential statistics. I say it is inferential because it is taking a sample data set (the 500 people) and generalizing that to a larger population (NYC). My teacher is telling me that it is descriptive, because NYC is the data set and the 500 people are a sample of that data set.

What I've gotten from her is that inferential statistics only apply to a population outside of that which you draw a sample from, but that contradicts multiple definitions for inferential statistics I have seen. In the link you just gave, for example, it says "Inferential statistics is the branch of statistics, which derive conclusions about the concerned population from the data set obtained from a sample subjected to random, observational, and sampling variations." In the question, it seems to me that the "concerned population" would be the population of NYC.

I actually think that the questions may have been poorly written and that it may actually have been trying to say that 42% of the 500 people have O+ blood, rather than all of NYC.

Whatever the case, I'm not comfortable just leaving a failing grade when I think that I am correct. Unfortunately there doesn't seem to be a good way to prove (or disprove) my point. If I knew someone with a PhD in statistics I'd ask them, and maybe have them give me an explanation to tell the teacher if it turns out I'm correct.

 

[Foxfyre]

Does anyone here have experience with statistics? I am getting annoyed by a problem in my healthcare statistics class regarding the difference between descriptive and inferential statistics and I'm looking for help understanding why I'm wrong (or possibly why the teacher is wrong).

My daughter is the statistics expert and unfortunately I am not. But ironically I had a discussion with somebody else--mostly related to political polling--and looked it up. This article seems to be very comprehensive, but in all honesty didn't help me a whole lot. (I didn't take a lot of time really studying it though.) Maybe it will make more sense to you?
Difference Between Descriptive and Inferential Statistics: Descriptive vs Inferential Statistics Compared

Unfortunately, the problem is that I have looked up the definitions of descriptive and inferential statistics over and over again, and I still am convinced that my teacher is wrong regarding a particular problem we had. At this point the teacher is annoyed and doesn't want to discuss it anymore, which is pretty frustrating because I ended up failing an assignment with only 6 questions because I got 2 wrong, but I still don't see how they can be wrong.

Basically, there's a sample of 500 people from New York City. 210 have O+ blood. Then you get a statement that 42% of the people of NYC have O+ blood, and are asked if that is descriptive or inferential statistics. I say it is inferential because it is taking a sample data set (the 500 people) and generalizing that to a larger population (NYC). My teacher is telling me that it is descriptive, because NYC is the data set and the 500 people are a sample of that data set.

What I've gotten from her is that inferential statistics only apply to a population outside of that which you draw a sample from, but that contradicts multiple definitions for inferential statistics I have seen. In the link you just gave, for example, it says "Inferential statistics is the branch of statistics, which derive conclusions about the concerned population from the data set obtained from a sample subjected to random, observational, and sampling variations." In the question, it seems to me that the "concerned population" would be the population of NYC.

I actually think that the questions may have been poorly written and that it may actually have been trying to say that 42% of the 500 people have O+ blood, rather than all of NYC.

Whatever the case, I'm not comfortable just leaving a failing grade when I think that I am correct. Unfortunately there doesn't seem to be a good way to prove (or disprove) my point. If I knew someone with a PhD in statistics I'd ask them, and maybe have them give me an explanation to tell the teacher if it turns out I'm correct.

The daughter has the PhD and is an expert in statistics, but she isn't a statistics specialists and would probably tell you that you need somebody who is for that.

 

[saveliberty]

Does anyone here have experience with statistics? I am getting annoyed by a problem in my healthcare statistics class regarding the difference between descriptive and inferential statistics and I'm looking for help understanding why I'm wrong (or possibly why the teacher is wrong).

My daughter is the statistics expert and unfortunately I am not. But ironically I had a discussion with somebody else--mostly related to political polling--and looked it up. This article seems to be very comprehensive, but in all honesty didn't help me a whole lot. (I didn't take a lot of time really studying it though.) Maybe it will make more sense to you?
Difference Between Descriptive and Inferential Statistics: Descriptive vs Inferential Statistics Compared

Unfortunately, the problem is that I have looked up the definitions of descriptive and inferential statistics over and over again, and I still am convinced that my teacher is wrong regarding a particular problem we had. At this point the teacher is annoyed and doesn't want to discuss it anymore, which is pretty frustrating because I ended up failing an assignment with only 6 questions because I got 2 wrong, but I still don't see how they can be wrong.

Basically, there's a sample of 500 people from New York City. 210 have O+ blood. Then you get a statement that 42% of the people of NYC have O+ blood, and are asked if that is descriptive or inferential statistics. I say it is inferential because it is taking a sample data set (the 500 people) and generalizing that to a larger population (NYC). My teacher is telling me that it is descriptive, because NYC is the data set and the 500 people are a sample of that data set.

What I've gotten from her is that inferential statistics only apply to a population outside of that which you draw a sample from, but that contradicts multiple definitions for inferential statistics I have seen. In the link you just gave, for example, it says "Inferential statistics is the branch of statistics, which derive conclusions about the concerned population from the data set obtained from a sample subjected to random, observational, and sampling variations." In the question, it seems to me that the "concerned population" would be the population of NYC.

I actually think that the questions may have been poorly written and that it may actually have been trying to say that 42% of the 500 people have O+ blood, rather than all of NYC.

Whatever the case, I'm not comfortable just leaving a failing grade when I think that I am correct. Unfortunately there doesn't seem to be a good way to prove (or disprove) my point. If I knew someone with a PhD in statistics I'd ask them, and maybe have them give me an explanation to tell the teacher if it turns out I'm correct.

You are taking a descriptive statistic from the sample and making an inferential statistical evaluation of another population based on the descriptive one.

 

[saveliberty]

No one understands statistics is an inferential stat based on our descriptive sample here.

 

[Dalia]

Hello Foxfire and all France is world champion in football so we celebrated today, I'm a little tipsy tonight but hey I was absent from the forum for a long time and I'm happy to return to the forum.
Vive la France /Long live France and a video that represents Brigitte Bardot the woman with a heart of gold who loves animals just like me