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A basic survey for a theory

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I am working on a basic theory of how one thing leads on to other things. If you would like to participate please provide information for me so that I can compile some information...

1. What was your SAT score, out of the old 1600 scale?
2. How much do you currently exercise per day?
3. What is your age?
4. What is your current income level?
5. How many drinks do you consume on a daily or weekly basis
6. What age did you have your first child?
7. How far did you go with your education, and/or still going with your education?

Okay, once I get this basic information, I'd like to provide the summary information, but I need about thirty to forty people to participate for me to analyze the information... Thanx for participating.
 
A voluntary poll on an online political message board will give you a horrendously bad sample of any population
 
I won't bother to answer these.
My answers would be so atypical they'd probably skew your entire survey and mess up whatever point you're trying to prove.
 
macklin said:
I am working on a basic theory of how one thing leads on to other things. If you would like to participate please provide information for me so that I can compile some information...

1. What was your SAT score, out of the old 1600 scale?
2. How much do you currently exercise per day?
3. What is your age?
4. What is your current income level?
5. How many drinks do you consume on a daily or weekly basis
6. What age did you have your first child?
7. How far did you go with your education, and/or still going with your education?

Okay, once I get this basic information, I'd like to provide the summary information, but I need about thirty to forty people to participate for me to analyze the information... Thanx for participating.
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Eh, I'll bite, but I dunno if you'll get your 30 - 40 people regardless.

1) I didn't take the SAT, but I took the ACT. My score was 34 iirc. 86 on my ASVAB

2) Depends really, I don't have a set routine. Usually do ab exercises everyday, walk the dog a bit, and scuba diving frequently now. Was doing some Tae Bo, boogie boarding nearly every day, and working on the bowflex. But I get bored easily so I have to change things up. I belly dance some, etc, etc.

3) 36

4) Currently not working due to contract ending, but just a couple weeks ago it was approx 90k

5) 2 - 3 glasses of wine daily

6) No children

7) 1 year of college
 
rivrrat
If your spelling is symptomatic of your test results, you had best leave yourself out of the survey.
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(Thanx for participating.)
 
rivrrat said:
WTF are you talking about? .
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:confused:

Dunno what he's on about. I didn't catch any spelling errors in your post, except deliberate ones like "dunno".
And I've got a built-in spellcheck in my brain.

Perhaps it's malfunctioning.
/ beats head on desk.
 
macklin said:
Okay, once I get this basic information, I'd like to provide the summary information, but I need about thirty to forty people to participate for me to analyze the information... Thanx for participating.
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The original post by Macklin includes this "egregious" spelling error: "Thanx for participating."

Jujuman13's criticism is stupid on two levels:

1) Jujuman13 mistakenly attacked Rivrrat, one of the most articulate discussants at Debate Politics.

2) "Thanx" is a common contraction of "thanks," just like "f-off" is a common contraction of an expression that I'm sure Jujuman13 hears a LOT. Who cares?
 
macklin said:
I am working on a basic theory of how one thing leads on to other things. If you would like to participate please provide information for me so that I can compile some information...

1. What was your SAT score, out of the old 1600 scale?
2. How much do you currently exercise per day?
3. What is your age?
4. What is your current income level?
5. How many drinks do you consume on a daily or weekly basis
6. What age did you have your first child?
7. How far did you go with your education, and/or still going with your education?
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Cool! This is the first time in 25 years that anybody has asked me what my SAT scores are, so of course I'm going to respond!

1. Verbal 680, Math 740. Also, I took the PSAT and was a National Merit finalist.

2. Eight timed quarter miles a day. Once or twice a week I time myself running up a 1200-foot hill and record the results here. Also, I do 300 to 500 pushups a day.

3. 42 years old.

4. Income comparable to Rivrrat, though I never give the exact figure online.

5. Two or three drinks a week.

6. No children.

7. BS in math.
 
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rivrrat he is referring to the spelling of your name "rivrrat" in a failed attempt at humour and then for a moment of snide grace he added "thanx" in a two for one insecure moment of spelling nit-picky-ness.

In my opinion of the human psychology when some attacks you "small" he is usually jealous of you "large" so when you bragged (or simply stated for research purposes) of something that he is jealous of, say your ASVAB score or your income, his brain flooded with momentary jealousy which sought out the desire to attack you --- can't beat you at the big poker table of life so he's attacking some other trait --- like when a defeated debator starts critizing his opponents hairstyle.
 
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jujuman13 said:
rivrrat
If your spelling is symptomatic of your test results, you had best leave yourself out of the survey.
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(Thanx for participating.)
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Since he wants to criticize your spelling rivrrat let's look at his grammar...symptomatic of ... OK? Nice try at making a logical sentence. How could spelling be the symptom of test results. He is saying "Spelling is the outgrowth of test results." He's putting the chicken before the egg in this argument, when he should have used a word like .... indicative of... as to say... If your spelling is INDICATIVE OF your test results, you had ?best? ... really ... you had ?best?. I don't care if people make mistakes in grammar or spelling because the greeks had no official agreed upon spelling or grammar and we still know what they were talking about ... but if you are going to get the sniper rifle of criticism out make sure you know how to use the scope...


"you had best leave yourself out" should read "you better leave yourself out" or "you SHOULD leave yourself out."


It is one thing to criticize and be spot on... it is another to criticize and be a big, sloppy anti-grammatical mess about it... so once again I feel my first claim is pulsating with truth... jealousy is a many headed beast, and one that is bad at grammar.

So if your grammar is INDICATIVE of your income, you BETTER assume that WE can assume YOU don't make as much as rivrrat, thus the reason you neglected to provide your stats GRAMMAR MAN.

But that's just my SMART A--SED, quick-witted, humble opinion.
 
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