On 15 Feb 2010 at 13:25, [email protected] wrote: > Canada has won very many gold medals in various olympic sports over the > years. Just not on Canadian soil. > Given that there have not been many Olympics in Canada, this is not horribly > unusual.
Thank you, Annette, for pointing that out. I also generally maintain that any comparison of medal scoring totals should be normalized by dividing by population. That should take both China and the Ewe Ess Eh down a peg, and raise us up accordingly. We are proud that Alexandre Bilodeau has at last put us on the map, gold metal-wise, as the host country. Did I mention that he's from Quebec? And we're also relieved that he nosed out Begg-Smith. Else we might have been stuck with celebrating (?) the victory of that Canadian-born-but-skiing-for-Australia athlete, unfortunately also alleged to be a champion of spam and spyware. So it's just as well he changed countries and lost. Stephen ----------------------------------------------------------------- Stephen L. Black, Ph.D. Professor of Psychology, Emeritus Bishop's University e-mail: [email protected] 2600 College St. Sherbrooke QC J1M 1Z7 Canada ----------------------------------------------------------------------- --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: [email protected]. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df5d5&n=T&l=tips&o=648 or send a blank email to leave-648-13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df...@fsulist.frostburg.edu
