--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Peter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 
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> --- sparaig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> > The ME theory is a large numbers theory. The crime
> > rate of Fairfield 
> > could be skewed by having a single pickpocket living
> > among the 
> > sidhas. For that matter, the traffic accident rate
> > during the Taste 
> > of Utopia course could go up because the town's
> > adult population more 
> > than doubled (tripled) during that time. To
> > accurately measure the 
> > predicted claims of the ME, you would need a much
> > larger statistical 
> > sample population for them to effect than Fairfield,
> > IA, like 
> > Washington, DC.
> 
> Another post hoc explanation. The ME theory as now
> constructed does not take sample size into
> consideration. What is the critical sample size and
> why?
> 


The ME is taken from analogies in physical systems. ALL such physical 
systems involve really huge numbers of 
particles/photons/atoms/whatevers.

And the exposition I have read DOES talk about the minimum population 
size needed.



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> > That's not to claim that there might not be SOME
> > measurable positive 
> > effect, only that you can't really claim the ME to
> > be supported or 
> > non-supported, based on Fairfield statistics (of
> > course, the TMO does 
> > exactly that when it suits them, but that's the PR
> > biz for you).
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