> Behalf Of Warren Ockrassa > > Do you find this surprising? I mean, the group self-selected. > Of course > they were all abuse victims. They set up a charity to *help* abuse
> victims. But it doesn't follow that all strippers are abuse > victims, or > even more likely to be abuse victims. Your sample size is *far* too > small and is *not* random. > > Suppose a group of CPAs put together a charity to assist victims of > mugging. Would you be even remotely surprised to learn that most CPAs > who participated in or gave to that group were themselves victims of > mugging? Probably you wouldn't. But you would be very off center to > suggest that this locally high correlation of CPAs to mugging > victimhood meant that a "preponderance" or even > "overwhelming" numbers of CPAs were victims of mugging. But I would be very surprised that they all worked for the same accounting firm and were in the same office. - jmh _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
