Sounds interesting, if I can find time in my schedule of thinking and choosing not to, I will certainly be game.
~ ¤(¯`*•.¸(¯`*•.¸ Meredith ¸.•*´¯)¸.•*´¯)¤ ~
When I die, I want to go peacefully like my Grandfather did, in his sleep -- not screaming, like the passengers in his car.
--- On Tue, 1/4/11, Frank <frank@progressivevp.com> wrote:
From: Frank <frank@progressivevp.com>
Subject: [vpFREE] Best Randomness Analogy Contest
To: vpFREE@yahoogroups.com
Date: Tuesday, January 4, 2011, 6:12 AM
I would like to start a contest for the best analogy to explain why it's a bad idea to look for patterns in random events. My own offering on the subject was Highway to Hell.
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/vpFREE/message/110977
So far in life, I have never been able to bring anyone over to my side of thought, that patterns in randomness are meaningless, if they were of the belief that "everything happens for a reason". I'm not running this contest as a promotion, or even to necessarily to educate others. I would just really like to have a good indisputable way of explaining this for my own personal use.
I'll award a free copy of my book and Dan Paymar's OpVP. or $50 bucks credit on my website, which ever you prefer, as well as dinner for two with me. That is, if whoever wins it, would like to have dinner with me.
Post all month and then we'll vote on Feb 1st.
Try to keep this thread for single analogy entries, and post rebuttals or comments in a separate thread.
~Frank Kneeland www.progressivevp.com
P.S. If any of this is against vpFREE policy please ignore me.
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