necoandjeff wrote:

> <mtfester@netMAPSONscape.net> wrote in message
> news:cas6dd$n4e$1@news.Stanford.EDU...
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>>necoandjeff <spam@schrepfer.com> wrote:
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>>><mtfester@netMAPSONscape.net> wrote in message
>>>news:caqpgb$j8k$2@news.Stanford.EDU...
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>>>>Ernest Schaal <eschaal@max.hi-ho.ne.jp> wrote:
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>>>>>in article capi7q$jvj$3@news.Stanford.EDU,
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> mtfester@netMAPSONscape.net
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>>>at
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>>>>>mtfester@netMAPSONscape.net wrote on 6/16/04 10:33 PM:
>>>>
>>>>My comments were clear; you are attempting to get a value judgement
> 
> from
> 
>>>>me. Failing that, you fabricate your own, in order to refute it.
>>>>
>>>>Granted, an argument with you is an easily winnable one, but not that
>>>>interesting.
>>
>>>I don't know why you insist on skirting what is a fairly straightforward
>>>question from both KWW and Ernest. The vast majority of your posts in
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> this
> 
>>It's fairly simple.
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>>I made a simple statement in response to someone else's mistaken comment
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> 
> "Actually, no, he didn't. What he did was cut taxes across-the-board, BUT
> gave a disproportionate cut to the upper income brackets."
> 
> "It is a fact that Reagan's tax cuts were disproportionate in favor of
> the upper income brackets."
> 
> "However, it is a fact that the tax cuts were disproportionately in favor
> of the rich. MUCH larger cuts were given the very richest than anyone
> else, who got a much flatter cut."
> 
> Three statements made by you. People are asking for the definition of
> "disproportionate" that stands behind each of these three statements. So it
> seems that you have chosen door number three. Fair enough. Nobody reading
> this thread is under the delusion that you have a well thought out basis for
> making these three statements anyway.

I came to three conclusions:
1) He doesn't understand the difference between "disproportionate" and
"more".

2) He doesn't understand how to view a body of data and analyze it.
Simple concepts like the value of analyzing each datapoint two ways,
such as "What is the difference between what the top 1% paid last year
and what they paid this year?" and "What size of a group does it take
this year to pay the same amount as the top 1% did last year?" elude
him. Advanced concepts such as trend-lining and confidence factors are
probably forever beyond his reach.

3) He got the lowest grade in his class in Physical Chemistry.

KWW