Bill, Yes that was me. I think we should call them, "Body Mnemonics" and I like your suggestion: I spread out my fingers and touched my thumbs and voila - a bimodal distribution! Nice. I was also thinking the other day that most people's rear ends (at least in my age group) resemble platykurtic distributions (I leave it to the imagination as to which body part would work for a leptokurtic distribution).
Michael Britt [email protected] www.thepsychfiles.com On Jan 3, 2009, at 6:19 AM, [email protected] wrote: > > I think it was Michael Britt who stated that by adjoining the two > feet,one gets a skewed distribution(?). > By adjoining my fingers and thumbs,I noted a bi-modal > distribution.How about when a turkey spreads its wings? > Any pedactyl statistician on Tips? > > Michael Sylvester,PhD > Daytona Beach,Florida > " when everyone thinks alike,nobody is thinking" > > --- > To make changes to your subscription contact: > > Bill Southerly ([email protected]) --- To make changes to your subscription contact: Bill Southerly ([email protected])
