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General Discussion => Talk Zone => Topic started by: Bench on February 26, 2006, 04:53:15 pm
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Bad news for the Houston native. He was diagnosed with 100% blockage of an artery. If he has the recommended surgery, he'll be out 5-8 months.
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Hate to say it, but you gotta wonder whats causing clots in a 28 year old.
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Hate to say it, but you gotta wonder whats causing clots in a 28 year old.
Too many pierogis?
Maybe he loaded up on Vioxx before the FDA pulled it?
It's actually not that uncommon in the grand scheme of things. Nobody's health is guaranteed, despite how healthy one's lifestyle is.
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Hate to say it, but you gotta wonder whats causing clots in a 28 year old.
Sometimes, bad things happen to good people.
Be sure to post on here if something unfortunate happens to you so we can automatically question your character.
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Hate to say it, but you gotta wonder whats causing clots in a 28 year old.
Sometimes, bad things happen to good people.
Be sure to post on here if something unfortunate happens to you so we can automatically question your character.
I got one of those fucked-up toe-nails. Big toe, left foot. I did nothing to deserve it. But you got to wonder what's causing a fucked-up toe-nail on a fifty year old guy.
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I got one of those fucked-up toe-nails. Big toe, left foot. I did nothing to deserve it. But you got to wonder what's causing a fucked-up toe-nail on a fifty year old guy.
Must be all that ass you've been kicking for 50 years.
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The chance of an average person getting clots under 40 (much less under 30) is greater than 1 in 10,000 (n.b. there are about 800 people in big leagues - that means there is only a 7.7 percent chance that ANY major leaguer would have a clot problem if they were "average").
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The chance of an average person getting clots under 40 (much less under 30) is greater than 1 in 10,000 (n.b. there are about 800 people in big leagues - that means there is only a 7.7 percent chance that ANY major leaguer would have a clot problem if they were "average").
Which is an exponentionally greater chance than someone winning the powerball.
Amazingly enough someone won both lotteries. The prize just happened to be better in the other one.
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The chance of an average person getting clots under 40 (much less under 30) is greater than 1 in 10,000 (n.b. there are about 800 people in big leagues - that means there is only a 7.7 percent chance that ANY major leaguer would have a clot problem if they were "average").
I think you are quick to judge a situation without all the facts.
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All athletes are stupid and evil.
Thank the deity for those that can hit a baseball.
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Didn't a clot lead to JR Richard's stroke? What was his medical history?
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The chance of an average person getting clots under 40 (much less under 30) is greater than 1 in 10,000 (n.b. there are about 800 people in big leagues - that means there is only a 7.7 percent chance that ANY major leaguer would have a clot problem if they were "average").
Which is an exponentionally greater chance than someone winning the powerball.
Amazingly enough someone won both lotteries. The prize just happened to be better in the other one.
The chance of someone winning the powerball is much much higher (its about 12 percent each week - the chance of going two month without a winner is only about 36 percent).
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The chance of an average person getting clots under 40 (much less under 30) is greater than 1 in 10,000 (n.b. there are about 800 people in big leagues - that means there is only a 7.7 percent chance that ANY major leaguer would have a clot problem if they were "average").
I think you are quick to judge a situation without all the facts.
Where did I judge anything?
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The chance of an average person getting clots under 40 (much less under 30) is greater than 1 in 10,000 (n.b. there are about 800 people in big leagues - that means there is only a 7.7 percent chance that ANY major leaguer would have a clot problem if they were "average").
I think you are quick to judge a situation without all the facts.
Where did I judge anything?
Why not just question what causes a clot in someone so young, without prefacing it with "Hate to say it"?
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Because its horrible that the game has been tainted such that it's the first thing I thought of?
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The chance of an average person getting clots under 40 (much less under 30) is greater than 1 in 10,000 (n.b. there are about 800 people in big leagues - that means there is only a 7.7 percent chance that ANY major leaguer would have a clot problem if they were "average").
I think you are quick to judge a situation without all the facts.
Where did I judge anything?
Why not just question what causes a clot in someone so young, without prefacing it with "Hate to say it"?
In TZ speak, doesn't "hate to say it" mean exactly the opposite? Same as "FACT".
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Because its horrible that the game has been tainted such that it's the first thing I thought of?
So it's the "games" fault that you spit out the first thought that pops into your head? Take a breath, learn something, The Link
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Probably a bad example. Though never confirmed, it was rumored he had a pretty large cocaine habit.
FWIW, Richard denies it.
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In TZ speak, doesn't "hate to say it" mean exactly the opposite? Same as "FACT".
Would you believe that after looking on the web how much information I found about blood clots? Especially clots in the upper body area in young pitchers, division I. Amazing even more was the fact that the repetitious motions is what seemed to cause the clots.
I'm sure they were all taking steroids, or some other supplement to cause such to happen.
But hey, sports are tainted so it is okay to assume anything.
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Usually things don't taint themselves, p, so I don't see how I implied it's the game's fault.
I don't know what your link was supposed to show. I don't recall Kip being overweight or pregnant. The article did not mention factor V leiden being a factor in his case, but it could be.
DVT Incidence
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In TZ speak, doesn't "hate to say it" mean exactly the opposite? Same as "FACT".
Would you believe that after looking on the web how much information I found about blood clots? ...
Yes.
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Usually things don't taint themselves, p, so I don't see how I implied it's the game's fault.
I don't know what your link was supposed to show. I don't recall Kip being overweight or pregnant. The article did not mention factor V leiden being a factor in his case, but it could be.
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You are setting a new level for crabbing in the TZ. And that is saying something. The Merck article mentions inheritable causes. The article you cite mentions inheritable causes.
"A family history of blood clots in the veins?
As high as 63 percent of families with blood clots in more than one family member have an inherited thrombophilia."
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But hey, sports are tainted so it is okay to assume anything.
When did I assume anything? I showed that if he (or baseball players in general) were average it would be very unlikely.
I also pointed out that given the climate, that made steroids occur to me.
You showed that they aren't average another way and that's entirely plausible.
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Explain how I'm crabbing?
BudGirl's explanation is much more plausible. That doesn't change what I thought when it happened or any of the numbers I put up.
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Explain how I'm crabbing?
BudGirl's explanation is much more plausible. That doesn't change what I thought when it happened or any of the numbers I put up.
You implied the injury was due to steriod use, (if you don't realize you did this in your first post, you're either an idiot or playing an idiot.) then YOU SAID the first thing that occured to you was because of what's going on in the "game", right after you wondered why we thought you were "judging". I don't know what else you could have meant by referencing the "game". Possibly you could crab another explanation there.
Flat out, you posted that you thought Wells had the blood clot due to steriod use. You did this without any evidence or attempt to find information about whether your accusation (yes, accusation) was true. The proof of this is that it is almost impossible NOT to find medical information about blood clots on the web; as you provided by posting the percentage chance of having blood clots when under 40.
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Explain how I'm crabbing?
BudGirl's explanation is much more plausible. That doesn't change what I thought when it happened or any of the numbers I put up.
You made it seem like the only reason he could have a blood clot was because of the "climate" of professional sports today. You gave no back ground information on any reason for him to have a clot (in regard to your first post) until after I commented on your quote.
I have not read anything about his personal life that would lead me to think this is related to anything that would "taint" professional athletes even more. It seems to me like this is much more a result of genes rather than the climate of his profession.
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No, I think it's plausible that it has to do with the repeated pitching motion. The genes angle doesn't refute the extraordinary unlikeliness.
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No, I think it's plausible that it has to do with the repeated pitching motion. The genes angle doesn't refute the extraordinary unlikeliness.
Please stop. You're making me hungry.
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In conclusion,
I feel better about sports now
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Because its horrible that the game has been tainted such that it's the first thing I thought of?
So it's the "games" fault that you spit out the first thought that pops into your head? Take a breath, learn something, The Link
A Merck article citing natural causes for blood clots? Now that is shocking information.
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Probably a bad example.
Hakeem Olajuwon would be a better one.
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Because its horrible that the game has been tainted such that it's the first thing I thought of?
So it's the "games" fault that you spit out the first thought that pops into your head? Take a breath, learn something, The Link
A Merck article citing natural causes for blood clots? Now that is shocking information.
Yes, because medical experts know nothing. The sad fact is that no one gets blood clots due to natural causes. They're all caused by global warming.
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Because its horrible that the game has been tainted such that it's the first thing I thought of?
So it's the "games" fault that you spit out the first thought that pops into your head? Take a breath, learn something, The Link
A Merck article citing natural causes for blood clots? Now that is shocking information.
Yes, because medical experts know nothing. The sad fact is that no one gets blood clots due to natural causes. They're all caused by global warming.
If you lead a healthy life, you will never get ill. If you're sick, it is undeniably your own fault. There is no disease in the absence of wrong doing.
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Because its horrible that the game has been tainted such that it's the first thing I thought of?
So it's the "games" fault that you spit out the first thought that pops into your head? Take a breath, learn something, The Link
A Merck article citing natural causes for blood clots? Now that is shocking information.
Yes, because medical experts know nothing. The sad fact is that no one gets blood clots due to natural causes. They're all caused by global warming.
If you lead a healthy life, you will never get ill. If you're sick, it is undeniably your own fault. There is no disease in the absence of wrong doing.
Sarcasm?
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Apparently we don't believe in probability here either.
I'd be happy to organize a TZ casino night.
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Apparently we don't believe in probability here either.
I'd be happy to organize a TZ casino night.
Apparently you don't believe in owning up. Just admit you thought the worst of Wells without info to back it up and move on.
Casino night? Free drinks and chips?
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Because its horrible that the game has been tainted such that it's the first thing I thought of?
So it's the "games" fault that you spit out the first thought that pops into your head? Take a breath, learn something, The Link
A Merck article citing natural causes for blood clots? Now that is shocking information.
Yes, because medical experts know nothing. The sad fact is that no one gets blood clots due to natural causes. They're all caused by global warming.
If you lead a healthy life, you will never get ill. If you're sick, it is undeniably your own fault. There is no disease in the absence of wrong doing.
Sarcasm?
If sarcasm wasn't obvious from that ludicrous comment, especially in the context of my earlier posts in this thread, I really need to give up writing altogether.
I went to the closing arguments in the Vioxx case down in Angleton. Talk about a brilliant smoke and mirrors job. Lanier got a several hundred million dollar verdict for a heart attack case in which there was no evidence of a heart attack.
There was an interesting op-ed piece in the NYT a couple of weeks ago (I'd link to it, but it's been archived) concerning the shocked reaction to a study that concluded low cholesterol and low blood pressure will not prevent breast cancer. The point of the article is that we live in a culture in which we believe health problems are entirely predicated on misbehavior, either the afflicted's poor lifestyle choices or some higher conspiracy. I think Bizidy's post reflect that unfounded notion.
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I promise I wanted to be done with this.
It is not unfounded to think that if something that is on the surface extremely unlikely happens then there should be some outside explanation.
That doesn't mean, in general, people do something wrong when they get sick. Also, it does seem to have turned out that there is such an explanation in this case (although it is probably him being a pitcher rather than him being on steroids, as I inappropriately accused him).
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I'm glad you fucked that post up. It made it that much easier to not read it.
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Because its horrible that the game has been tainted such that it's the first thing I thought of?
So it's the "games" fault that you spit out the first thought that pops into your head? Take a breath, learn something, The Link
A Merck article citing natural causes for blood clots? Now that is shocking information.
Yes, because medical experts know nothing. The sad fact is that no one gets blood clots due to natural causes. They're all caused by global warming.
If you lead a healthy life, you will never get ill. If you're sick, it is undeniably your own fault. There is no disease in the absence of wrong doing.
Sarcasm?
If sarcasm wasn't obvious from that ludicrous comment, especially in the context of my earlier posts in this thread, I really need to give up writing altogether.
I went to the closing arguments in the Vioxx case down in Angleton. Talk about a brilliant smoke and mirrors job. Lanier got a several hundred million dollar verdict for a heart attack case in which there was no evidence of a heart attack.
There was an interesting op-ed piece in the NYT a couple of weeks ago (I'd link to it, but it's been archived) concerning the shocked reaction to a study that concluded low cholesterol and low blood pressure will not prevent breast cancer. The point of the article is that we live in a culture in which we believe health problems are entirely predicated on misbehavior, either the afflicted's poor lifestyle choices or some higher conspiracy. I think Bizidy's post reflect that unfounded notion.
pfheeew. No, that was good sarcasm. I just wanted to step lightly, never know what kind of nutty ideas people have unrelated (or related) to baseball. Or, maybe we do.
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Perhaps this can made into a template and put in the FAQs.
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Step 2 - Post a stupid, unsupportable message
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Step 4 - Come back and say your original message didn't really say what it says, or doesn't say what it appears to everyone else but you it says
Step 5 - Get hammered for it
Step 6 - Come back and try to defend to original premise, the one you disowned in Step 4
Step 7 - Get hammered for it
Step 8 - Come back and say you are misunderstood, that you did not say what you said, or mean what you meant... but if you had, you would've been right, anyway. Give evidence to support this.
Step 9 - Get hammered for it
Step 10 - Take the high road, and say 'I am done with this', in a lofty way
Step 11 - Get hammered for it
Step 12 - Come back in (presumably on a lower road) and say, 'Yes I was done with this, but...' and proceed to rehash arguments made in Steps 4, 6, and 8
Step 13 - Get hammered for it
At this point, you can quit in indignant exasperation, or put in a go loop here and start the thing all over again. Either way, congratulations! You are now an OWA troll.
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The chance of an average person getting clots under 40 (much less under 30) is greater than 1 in 10,000 (n.b. there are about 800 people in big leagues - that means there is only a 7.7 percent chance that ANY major leaguer would have a clot problem if they were "average").
Which is an exponentionally greater chance than someone winning the powerball.
Amazingly enough someone won both lotteries. The prize just happened to be better in the other one.
The chance of someone winning the powerball is much much higher (its about 12 percent each week - the chance of going two month without a winner is only about 36 percent).
If you want to be pedantic aobut it since i did not specify the grand prize winner then yes, the odds of winning any sometihng ($3) is about 1 in 70.
But if you would like to show how the grand prize odds of 1 in 146,107,962.00, works out to 12% any one week I'd love to see it.
Compare all data of blood clots for major leaguers over the past 20 years and see how close you come to your 1 in 10,000 odds of "average" people. Trying to justify it with just the population of one singular year of MLB is blessedly stupid.
Small sample size does not just apply to batting averages.
But in any case it still doesnt negate the fact that small chance != no chance. And anything, no matter how unlikely, if its possible it'll happen eventually.
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Apparently we don't believe in probability here either.
I'd be happy to organize a TZ casino night.
While believing in probaility, you seem to have a fundamental lack of understanding it.
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Tophar, you are a moron.
As you said, the chance of winning the grand prize is 1 in 146,107,962. That is the same as saying that the chance of an individual person not winning is .999999993155746. Now consider how many powerball tickets are purchased each time. I couldn't find how many played, but last week 457,591 won some prize. The odds of winning some prize (as you wrongly point out) is 1 in 36.61. Thus, we can assume roughly 16.75 million people played (I used 18 million last time - I'm assuming that its probably within this range).
Thus, the chance of no one winning any given week is given by (.999999993155746)^16500000, or .893. Thus, there is a 10.7 percent chance of someone winning (again, the difference is from using 16.5M instead of 18M).
This is the last free lesson you get tophar - the going rate for tutoring out here is about 90 an hour.
EDIT: It seems that the chance is probably even higher, given that about 13 people win each year I'm assuming that significantly more than 18 million people play, on average (probably closer to 50 million).
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what an arrogant little twerp you are. i hope Daddy's Money is enough to get you to retirement.
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Oh fuckoff. first, you calling anyone arrogant is sublime. Second, telling someone they don't understand something based on your own idiocy deserves it.
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Daddy's Little Boy has a trashy mouth too.
don't think i posted anything about what you don't understand. it would take far too long to cover that topic.
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Daddy's Little Boy has a trashy mouth too.
don't think i posted anything about what you don't understand. it would take far too long to cover that topic.
tophar did. try and keep up.
P.S. Bad day to be condescending right after it comes out that your university tends to let illiterate people pass their classes.
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you have not been following the story, prick. oh, i should have said racist prick, i guess.
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What is racist about someone scoring well below the literacy barrier (questionable second test notwithstanding).
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What is racist about someone scoring well below the literacy barrier (questionable second test notwithstanding).
I'm guessing you got your ass kicked quite a bit growing up.
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No part of anything I said is even particularly controversial (there has been vague talk about problems in the test, but the prevailing problem just seems to be that only the highest score is supposed to be reported).
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what a ridiculous little baby you are. just an insufferable, arrogant boy of privilege.
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P.S. Bad day to be condescending right after it comes out that your university tends to let illiterate people pass their classes.
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Please. Do you have some sort of penis envy for The University of Texas? IIRC you tried to start the anti-Texas academics crap during the Sam Lecure saga last year.
If you're going to move the spotlight you should try to do so toward something that doesn't make you look like just as much of a horse's ass.
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No, I like UT in general. It's just their policy towards athletics which is unsettling.
Even after Casserly's statements, two team executives said they weren't willing to believe Young's score was incorrect, standing by the initial information that was given them.
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Several team sources confirmed the low score Sunday,
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Also if the test was mis-scored, why did he get a special do-over with the director of scouting (as per the Houston Chronicle report). Why not just grade it correctly?
Also, why has no one explained what went wrong, besides the result being prematurely released?
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what a ridiculous little baby you are. just an insufferable, arrogant boy of privilege.
I made no value judgements about literacy, beyond the fact that it should be a requirement for passing college courses.
I would love you to explain this (especially how it's a racial issue).
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P.S. Bad day to be condescending right after it comes out that your university tends to let illiterate people pass their classes.
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Please. Do you have some sort of penis envy for The University of Texas? IIRC you tried to start the anti-Texas academics crap during the Sam Lecure saga last year.
If you're going to move the spotlight you should try to do so toward something that doesn't make you look like just as much of a horse's ass.
The worst part, as it was with the misdirection at the beginning of the thread, is that he doesn't think we see him doing this. It's like playing peek a boo with a 3 year old. This thread is starting to smell of napalm. Though, strosrays post is worth saving.
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I certainly have no agenda regarding UT. In fact, I come from a thoroughly UT background.
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This thread is starting to smell of napalm. Though, strosrays post is worth saving.
Agreed.
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your agenda is that you are a spoiled little boy who thinks that being born rich makes you better than everyone else.
you are an insufferable, arrogant jerk.
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whats amazing to me is how you justify an illiterate person passing a college class by calling me arrogant.
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This thread is starting to smell of napalm. Though, strosrays post is worth saving.
I thought the same thing, so the second sentence, done.
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whats amazing to me is how you justify an illiterate person passing a college class by calling me arrogant.
What is amazing is how you took a thread about a "steriod-using" Kip Wells and turned it into an I'm better than you thread.
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Vince Young is not fucking illiterate.
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no one on the UT football team, including Young, is illiterate. your smugness is insufferable, and you are fighting to be recognized as the biggest jackass to ever post on the TZ.
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Charlie Wonderlic Jr., president of Wonderlic Inc., says, "A score of 10 is literacy, that's about all we can say."
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I'm done.
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you are not done being a spoiled little prick. you'll be that your entire life.
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Tophar, you are a moron.
As you said, the chance of winning the grand prize is 1 in 146,107,962. That is the same as saying that the chance of an individual person not winning is .999999993155746. Now consider how many powerball tickets are purchased each time. I couldn't find how many played, but last week 457,591 won some prize. The odds of winning some prize (as you wrongly point out) is 1 in 36.61. Thus, we can assume roughly 16.75 million people played (I used 18 million last time - I'm assuming that its probably within this range).
Thus, the chance of no one winning any given week is given by (.999999993155746)^16500000, or .893. Thus, there is a 10.7 percent chance of someone winning (again, the difference is from using 16.5M instead of 18M).
This is the last free lesson you get tophar - the going rate for tutoring out here is about 90 an hour.
EDIT: It seems that the chance is probably even higher, given that about 13 people win each year I'm assuming that significantly more than 18 million people play, on average (probably closer to 50 million).
No my friend you are an idiot. You have calculated your percentages using the WRONG POPULATION.
The percentage winning is not ascribed to an individual person, they are ascribed to any individual ticket. People buy more than one ticket. So to assume that there were only 16 million tickets sold would assume that each person BOUGHT ONE AND ONE TICKET ONLY.
And i think it has been empirically shown that this is not the case. So until you have data on how many winning tickets there were in regards to the TOTAL NUMER OF TICKETS SOLD, NOT NUMBER OF PEOPLE THAT WON your caclulations are not just suspect, but factually and procedurally wrong.
Your statistics teacher would be very dissapointed in you.
Once again, fundamental misunderstanding.
And you have yet to resolve the question about how many major leaguers of the past 20 years have had blood clotting problems and if that number is more or less than what is expected out of the general population. Or if there has been a rash or rise in said blood clots during this "steroid" era.
Once you do so, a simple hypothesis test will show if blood clots are any sort of indication of steroid use in MLB.
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Part of me wants to get a hold of Spack and nuke this fuckin' thread.
And part of me is enjoying it too much.
What to do, what to do...?
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Ok, ok, I took that test. I got a 3. No wait.
I missed 5 of the 15. Giving myself 5 minutes, I didn't have time to complete 3 (numbers 11, 13, and 15). I got 10 wrong because I didn't see the . in front of .33 (so I put .8). But I missed number 4 because I didn't notice Neiman and Nieman. No wonder my kid's dyslexic.
I think it was because Wells was a pirate, and after all that rapin' and murderin' and stuff that pirates do--and all of us who have read Tom Sawyer and BD know all about that--it was divine retribution. Tough luck for Wells. The Pirates actually look reasonably reasonable this year.
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leave it up. you are having lots of new members register just to bash the arrogant little prick.
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Keep this fucker alive.
Stros-rays is making a case for being Foggy's Favorite Poster (FFP). For the longest time, Breedlove was FFP but he seemingly has vanished into the bandwidth. Not too long after that Jane Doe made her presence felt, and well gee, how can you NOT have her as FFP. But truth be told, stros-rays deserves the title of FFP. He's been bringing it strong, real fucking strong, for 2 or 3 years now.
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And I thought I was your favorite. Who's gonna cuddle me during those cool spring nights now.
I feel dirty.
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Perhaps this can made into a template and put in the FAQs.
Step 1 - Log in
Step 2 - Post a stupid, unsupportable message
Step 3 - Get hammered for it
Step 4 - Come back and say your original message didn't really say what it says, or doesn't say what it appears to everyone else but you it says
Step 5 - Get hammered for it
Step 6 - Come back and try to defend to original premise, the one you disowned in Step 4
Step 7 - Get hammered for it
Step 8 - Come back and say you are misunderstood, that you did not say what you said, or mean what you meant... but if you had, you would've been right, anyway. Give evidence to support this.
Step 9 - Get hammered for it
Step 10 - Take the high road, and say 'I am done with this', in a lofty way
Step 11 - Get hammered for it
Step 12 - Come back in (presumably on a lower road) and say, 'Yes I was done with this, but...' and proceed to rehash arguments made in Steps 4, 6, and 8
Step 13 - Get hammered for it
At this point, you can quit in indignant exasperation, or put in a go loop here and start the thing all over again. Either way, congratulations! You are now an OWA troll.
Outstanding post Strohs. The above mentioned process plays out every now and then, and when it does, it is EXACTLY as you described.
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Spoiled Little Boy has done it twice in the same thread.
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It's amazing to me that it can be reported all over the fucking internet that VY never made a 6 on the test, and yet aggies and dipshits claim that the backpeddling is a UT conspiracy. Lance Z is on record on Hornfans as saying that the leak was done before the results were even in, and the leaking individual was fired. John McClain also was on this morning saying that the 6 was in no way accurate, and Charlie Casserly, who isn't drafting VY and would like some justification with fans not to do so, is on record as saying that the report of a 6 was not right. Additionally, one entire group had to retake the test (I think VY's) so that would say to me that perhaps they weren't given a proper amount of time or some such.
A 16 ain't great, but it ain't illiterate either. It is slightly below average (literacy being defined as 10, the NFL combine average at 19, and the national average at 20).
I probably know people that are in the top 3% of intelligence that would miss a couple of questions like Neil talked about b/c they didn't see a decimal point, or b/c they see something dyslexified (i.e. the Nieman vs Neiman example). When you are trying to answer 50 questions in 12 minutes there is a big time time crunch issue involved, and sometimes stupid shit like that referenced leads to misses as well.
I'm fine with VY being the face of my institution any day of the week. The guy is a truly special athlete, and seemingly a truly special individual from all I have seen and heard about him, even if he measures out at slightly below average on an intelligence test.
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Spoiled Little Boy has done it twice in the same thread.
Well, you really got to hand it to him for that. Dedication to ones craft, even when one's craft is being a prick, is so rare these days.
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It's amazing to me that it can be reported all over the fucking internet that VY never made a 6 on the test, and yet aggies and dipshits claim that the backpeddling is a UT conspiracy.
Now, I can't speak for all Aggies, but I could care less what Vince Young scored. I read the articles this morning and concluded it was a "non-story" story besides my not having realized the ability to read was a key factor in football (regardless of what his score ends up as). I assume there were some aggies making comment about the reported score?
And seriously, isn't there something more important to be concerned about, i.e. the now false ricin incident? Maybe it's me and my skewed aggie values that find the VY thing nonsense while there are questions about a ricin hoax.
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Charlie Wonderlic Jr., president of Wonderlic Inc., says, "A score of 10 is literacy, that's about all we can say."
Got proof that Vince scored lower than a 10?
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Major T, i really think you are posting on the wrong board. perhaps ACLU.com has a message board.
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Charlie Wonderlic Jr., president of Wonderlic Inc., says, "A score of 10 is literacy, that's about all we can say."
Got proof that Vince scored lower than a 10?
Yeah. he scored a 6. I read it on the internet. Isn't that all the proof needed?
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A 16 ain't great, but it ain't illiterate either. It is slightly below average (literacy being defined as 10, the NFL combine average at 19, and the national average at 20).
Didn't Dan Marino score a 13?
btw, I live in San Francisco, and my wife works in Palo Alto-- Stanford students are easily the dumbest people I meet in the Bay Area. Hands down. Sit next to one on the train or in a restaurant, and you are guaranteed to overhear a steady stream of pompous, meaningless bullshit. Guaranteed.
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btw, I live in San Francisco, and my wife works in Palo Alto-- Stanford students are easily the dumbest people I meet in the Bay Area. Hands down. Sit next to one on the train or in a restaurant, and you are guaranteed to overhear a steady stream of pompous, meaningless bullshit. Guaranteed.
Now this thread is getting stupid.
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So it's the "games" fault that you spit out the first thought that pops into your head? Take a breath, learn something, The Link
I had a buddy at school who we called "thromb". Short for thrombosis; which is the medical term for a slow moving clot.
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So it's the "games" fault that you spit out the first thought that pops into your head? Take a breath, learn something, The Link
I had a buddy at school who we called "thromb". Short for thrombosis; which is the medical term for a slow moving clot.
That's what proper schooling will do for you. When we wanted to make fun of a guy we called him stinky. Whether he did or not. Of course, none of us would cracked double digits on the Wunderlich test neither.
see also this article, The Link Pirates might be dangling Nancy for another pitcher if worse comes to worse,
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And I thought I was your favorite. Who's gonna cuddle me during those cool spring nights now.
I feel dirty.
Apparently, he didn't have a hard time quitting you.
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That's what proper schooling will do for you. When we wanted to make fun of a guy we called him stinky. Whether he did or not. Of course, none of us would cracked double digits on the Wunderlich test neither.
Proper schooling wouldn't have stopped us giggling like little girls at being told we had to take a "Wunderlich" test.
Edit: Oh, and if you'd ever met this guy, you'd instantly realise the true genius of it. I have never, before or since, come across a more apt, accurate and appropriate nickname.
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what a ridiculous little baby you are. just an insufferable, arrogant boy of privilege.
Not to be too self-centered, but I could dadgum sure use being a boy of privilege right now if anyone wants to adopt me. Anyone who applies for the position could get some good, menial labor out of the family and some nice tax deductions -- I sure ain't going to be able to use the deductions for a while.
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what a ridiculous little baby you are. just an insufferable, arrogant boy of privilege.
Not to be too self-centered, but I could dadgum sure use being a boy of privilege right now if anyone wants to adopt me.
The key is, how do you handle insufferability and arrogance? It's guys like Bizidydizidy that give warm and compassionate boys of privilege a bad name.
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Apparently we don't believe in probability here either.
I'd be happy to organize a TZ casino night.
Given the absolutely fundamental lack of understanding of statistics and probability you've displayed, bring it on.
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And I thought I was your favorite. Who's gonna cuddle me during those cool spring nights now.
I feel dirty.
C'mon son, you ain't been the shit for a long time. You miss the Professor Moriarty to your Sherlock Holmes.
Now THOSE were some sparkling posts.
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Anyway, Foghorn, I am deeply honored, really. And, like you, I am somewhat in awe of Jane Doe. You or I or Andy Zipp or whomever may bring it, but Jane Doe brings it (whole new deinition.) No comparison.
Also, I'd like to cite Bench for having the first and probably best answer as to what may have caused Wells' clot -- piroges. Of course! In Pittsburgh, piroges and a slice of kolache (the fruit and/or nut roll kind, not the weenie-in-a-biscuit kind) are a breakfast staple. Piroges. Potato piroges, just like my old Czech grandma from the Mon Valley used to make 'em. Cooked up in a skillet with butter and onions and a pinch (clove and a half) of garlic, mmmmmm. Eat three or four of those in the morning, and you can actually feel the plaque locking into place. Nothing better.
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Hate to say it, but you gotta wonder whats causing clots in a 28 year old.
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Dr. Robert Thompson, a vascular surgeon in St. Louis who diagnosed the condition, said the ailment is the direct result of Wells' pitching.
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Hate to say it, but you gotta wonder whats causing clots in a 28 year old.
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Dr. Robert Thompson, a vascular surgeon in St. Louis who diagnosed the condition, said the ailment is the direct result of Wells' pitching.
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You believe that republineck lackey whore-dog spin?
I have a winning powerball ticket that says he juiced.
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And I said that's what I thought it was and was wrong not to think of it in the first place.
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You believe that republineck lackey whore-dog spin?
I have a winning powerball ticket that says he juiced.
Obviously in the pocket of the giant piroge conglomerates, how can he even call himself a "doctor"?