A word from someone who is more grounded in "real life"... dlw To: David L Wetzell <[email protected]>
** Mr. Wetzell, tell Mr. Ossipuff and the list (1) to look at the article *Multicollinearity and Micronumerosity<http://econlog.econlib.org/archives/2005/09/multicollineari.html> ** to see the word in action; and (2) "micronumerosity" is an *English*word, and English is a language chock full of words formed from many other languages, including Greek and Latin. - Ken Bearman * ... which I found merely by Googling "micronumerosity". As you also wrote, "[I]s EM the true standard for real life or is it biased by virtue of how its members are oft removed from the world of real life activism?" ... and dictionaries. On 1/21/2012 2:39 PM, David L Wetzell wrote: Dave says: > > It's called the problem of micronumerosity. > > MO:Nonsense. That isn't a descriptive name. No doubt anything is called by > different names by > different people. The problem referred to is best known, well known, as > the spoiler problem, which is also an incomparably better descriptive (if > less pretentious) term. Maybe IRV's spoiler problem is called "the problem > of micronumerosity" by the same people (or person?) who use your other > pretentiously pseudoscientific language. > dlw: Micronumerosity is not nonsense. it may be better known as the "Law of Small Numbers<https://www.google.com/search?aq=f&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8&q=%22the+law+of+small+numbers%22>", which says people come to decisions based on too small of a sample. The "negative" effects of the possibility of a non-CW winner in an IRV-ish election can and should be observed on the basis of many elections,not two... > The use of "micronumerosity" reveals an ignorance of word-origin: The > first part of it is Greek, and the last part of it is Latin. > Like there was never any historic influence between the Greeks and Rome? They both were affected by the cultural imports of Pythagoras<https://www.google.com/search?sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8&q=riedweg+pythagoras#pq=riedweg+pythagoras&hl=en&tok=N4J8peRbtZMrgOHX890Tfg&cp=47&gs_id=l&xhr=t&q=pythagoras+his+life+teaching+and+influence+by+christoph+riedweg&pf=p&sclient=psy-ab&source=hp&pbx=1&oq=%22Pythagoras:+his+life,+teaching,+and+influence%22&aq=0v&aqi=g-v4&aql=&gs_sm=&gs_upl=&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.r_cp.,cf.osb&fp=1a6a6fc03027a1ea&biw=1490&bih=905> from his travels abroad. And the word is not my own...
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