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Re: SQL server Vs Oracle

From: Abbot Cooper <cooper_NoSpam_ab_at_mediaone.net>
Date: Wed, 12 May 1999 09:21:23 -0400
Message-ID: <7hbv89$812$1@usenet46.supernews.com>


Maybe the politician or stock analyst is the one who comes up with the unwarranted assumption and the foregone conclusion, and then hires the statistician? The statistician is the one who actually has the _capability_ to draw the line between the two...

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Tony Toews wrote in message <3737c05f.107619328_at_news.telusplanet.net>...
>"Abbot Cooper" <cooper_NoSpam_ab_at_mediaone.net> wrote:
>
>>There is also a saying (don't know to whom to attribute it) that the
>>definition of a statistician is "someone who can draw a straight line
>>between an unwarranted assumption and a foregone conclusion".
>
>Hmm, sounds more like a politician or an "analyst". And I mean
>analyst as in those folks who analyze stuff for the stock market and
>such.
>
>Tony
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