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originally posted by VLM:
originally posted by Courtney Hays:
What committee? I don't have one...
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OK, I was kidding.

But seriously, don't listen to Rahsaan, he's nuts.
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Maybe we could trade Rahsaan, 3 paid subscriptions to Popular Mechanics and a 1st round draft choice for Courtney. Would the Politburo have to approve the trade?
 
originally posted by Lou Kessler: Maybe we could trade Rahsaan, 3 paid subscriptions to Popular Mechanics and a 1st round draft choice for Courtney. Would the Politburo have to approve the trade?
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So I get to keep Courtney? What would my wife think?

And without even asking Courtney's permission first! We don't all live in Swingin' Napa..
 
originally posted by SFJoe:
originally posted by VLM:
originally posted by Courtney Hays:
Courtney is a she... I deleted the post because above mentioned "drama".
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Actually, I gave you very good advice and I'm not even on your committee.

And I dated a Courtney once.

Which reminds me, why don't biologists (or bench scientists in general) have to learn experimental design?
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Chemists don't learn it because with ten to the 24th items in your sample you don't give a shit about statistics.

Biologists often have problems with precision of measurement that would satisfy you, but these are mostly associated with their physical methods.

But yeah, that Richard Axel, he really coulda been a contender if only he'd had a good statistician on the team.
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OK, I was thinking about this. I think it has to do with my background and what I think of as experimental design, might be called study design in bio/medical fields. So it's more about what is now called "big science", that is, bringing together multiple disciplines to work on a specific thing and fitting together the experiments so that they make a cohesive whole. It's a bit different with R01 science where you have a rigidly defined topic and it is designed from square 1.
 
originally posted by Rahsaan:
originally posted by Lou Kessler: Maybe we could trade Rahsaan, 3 paid subscriptions to Popular Mechanics and a 1st round draft choice for Courtney. Would the Politburo have to approve the trade?
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So I get to keep Courtney? What would my wife think?

And without even asking Courtney's permission first! We don't all live in Swingin' Napa..
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how about if we keep Rahsaan, but invite Courtney back. Everyone try to email her. Let's get the next generation of wine marketers into real wine!

Rahsaan will do the analysis.
 
originally posted by VLM:
originally posted by Rahsaan:
originally posted by Lou Kessler: Maybe we could trade Rahsaan, 3 paid subscriptions to Popular Mechanics and a 1st round draft choice for Courtney. Would the Politburo have to approve the trade?
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So I get to keep Courtney? What would my wife think?

And without even asking Courtney's permission first! We don't all live in Swingin' Napa..
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how about if we keep Rahsaan, but invite Courtney back. Everyone try to email her. Let's get the next generation of wine marketers into real wine!

Rahsaan will do the analysis.
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You only like her because she uses Survey Monkey.
 
Courtney,
On the off chance that you still have any interest in this place, I'll mention that my post was not directing any hostility your direction, but rather was a poke at our benevolent politburo (I had to use that adjective or risk a putsch). Hell, I even filled out your survey, for all the good that may do you. It also true, though, that the winos who congregate here are so far removed from anyone's conception of a "market sample" that you'd best throw out our responses altogether. Berserkers and the Spec board probably come closest to a representative collection of wine consumers. West Coast Wine Net might also fit the bill.

Mark Lipton
 
Great, now everybody (well, nearly) is feeling bad for driving Courtney away, the only person with a remote semblance of normalcy to stumble upon these vitiated pages for the last, what, year? What a bunch on namby pamby vipers. This message board brought to you courtesy of a parallel anti-matter universe where nice is ironic and nasty is tender.
 
Courtney,
You are welcome here.
The denizens already here are often smug, obscene, erudite, erratic or just plain loaded; such is their charm.
But one can learn from them.
-politburo
 
I was feeling bad for Courtney, but since she invariably replies politely to those who say polite things to her and ignores all other posts (not to mention her desire to avoid drama), I'm not sure she's in the spirit of the place. In fact, she threatens to add tone. I disapprove of tone. If, however, she refers to subspecies of grapes as varieties, I'll go back to encouraging her presence.
 
originally posted by Jonathan Loesberg:
I was feeling bad for Courtney, but since she invariably replies politely to those who say polite things to her and ignores all other posts (not to mention her desire to avoid drama), I'm not sure she's in the spirit of the place. In fact, she threatens to add tone. I disapprove of tone. If, however, she refers to subspecies of grapes as varieties, I'll go back to encouraging her presence.
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As long as she isn't adding toner. I prefer to do that myself, control freak that I am.

Mark Lipton
 
originally posted by politburo:
Courtney,
You are welcome here.
The denizens already here are often smug, obscene, erudite, erratic or just plain loaded; such is their charm.
But one can learn from them.
-politburo
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You left out 'sanctimonious'
 
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