I tried to be brief but now I see that I must explain.
What makes it humorous is that the numbers are real. I used to keep a
count and that really was the going ratio. I stopped doing it years ago
because the ratio wasn't changing any more.
I used to have a chauvanistic theory to explain it but back in '96, when
I attended my very first autocross, I made new observations which proved
my theory incorrect. The fact that there is no theory to explain it, is
what makes it such a good example of correlation vs. causation.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Kelly, Katie [mailto:kkelly@spss.com]
> Sent: Friday, February 22, 2002 14:35
> To: Michael R. Clements; Alan Gruner; ba-autox@autox.team.net
> Subject: RE: SUV flame wars
>
>
> Hee hee hee. :)
>
> Katie
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Michael R. Clements [mailto:mrclem@telocity.com]
> Sent: Friday, February 22, 2002 2:33 PM
> To: Kelly, Katie; 'Alan Gruner'; ba-autox@autox.team.net
> Subject: RE: SUV flame wars
>
>
> Hey! I brought it up only as a humorous example to illuminate
> the correlation vs. causation issue that Larry brought up.
> Didn't mean to get myself in trouble.
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