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Old 26-October-2008, 07:05 AM
Warren Platts Warren Platts is offline
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Originally Posted by cjl View Post
Sorry, but pulling numbers out of your, um, rear, is not a way of getting an accurate expectation of death. As there is no valid scientific justification for your claimed probability figures, everything based on them is a load of bunk.
Go ahead and pull your own numbers out of wherever. At least I provided a justification for each number I offered.

I'm afraid that you're afraid to go into "probability mode" as John Ellis put it. Because once you try to quantify the risk--you lose. . . .

ETA: that goes for you too, Neverfly.
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