> Message: 5 > Date: Mon, 13 Aug 2007 09:01:57 -0400 > From: "Rick Schummer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: RE: Tech Skills > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" > > Hi Jeff, > > >>Don't drop your card deck! ;^) I wonder how many (other than Whil) will > >>get that?<< > > While at college I watched a young women breakdown in tears when her card > deck was scattered across > the hallway in the Engineering building. She was on deadline and had no > chance of reassembling her > program in time. >
I worked for a company that did opinion polls. They used to take a deck of cards and throw them down a flight of stairs. This produce a random sample. Until we built a system that used a Fixed Interval Random Start approach. :) Mike _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[EMAIL PROTECTED] ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
