Glen_who_can_be_such_a_rhetor -

I had the pleasure (no scare quotes) of working with a statistician at
LANL who was a trained "rhetoritician"...  I don't think I would want to
imply anything distasteful about him or his work... it was often obscure
to me but a powerful theme in the larger theme of "lies, damn lies, and
statistics".   He was *much* more responsible (or more explicitely?)
than his peers in the persuasive use of his work-product.

On 9/17/19 11:06 AM, uǝlƃ ☣ wrote:
> Ha! "Rhetor". It's fantastic how you assembled those words so that "rhetor" 
> seems so distasteful. I'm going to start using "rhetor" as a username for 
> those throwaway logins I'm always having to create.
>
> On 9/17/19 9:46 AM, Jon Zingale wrote:
>> My favorite and perhaps most  disillusioning was a
>> talk he gave at Google, where with maybe six people
>> in the room, I had the privilege to observe what a
>> rhetor he was capable of being. Now, I almost
>> never think about him or his theory.
>


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