"John Knight" <johnknight at usa.com> wrote in message
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> "Parse Tree" <parsetree at hotmail.com> wrote in message
> news:nCL29.3972$9g7.936910 at news20.bellglobal.com...> > "John Knight" <johnknight at usa.com> wrote in message
> > news:kQK29.56711$Fq6.4999392 at news2.west.cox.net...> > >
> > > "Parse Tree" <parsetree at hotmail.com> wrote in message
> > > news:gj529.2150$9g7.421107 at news20.bellglobal.com...> > > > "Bob LeChevalier" <lojbab at lojban.org> wrote in message
> > > > news:i1mhkugkvkveqhjlbsfjr5bo4jaduimbqh at 4ax.com...> > > > > "Parse Tree" <parsetree at hotmail.com> wrote:
> > > > > >> The larger the sample size, the smaller the deviation from 25%.
> > > TIMSS
> > > > was
> > > > > >a
> > > > > >> large enough sample size that a 3% standard error is
> conservative.
> > > > > >
> > > > > >I don't know the size of the sample. Was it 10 000?
> > > > >
> > > > > For the 12th grade math questions, N for the US was 2795. Only 2
> > > > > other countries had a sample size over 2000, and Cyprus had the
> > > > > smallest sample at N=190.
> > > >
> > > > Ha ha ha!! That's not really big enough to get an accurate picture.
> > > >
> > > > I assumed that it was simply given to every student in the country
> that
> > > was
> > > > of the required grade.
> > > >
> > >
> > > You "assumed" what?
> > >
> > > Not only are your assumptions dead wrong, but so are your conclusions,
> and
> > > analysis, and for that matter, your entire participation in this
forum.
> > > 2,795 is MORE than enough American students to get a plus or minus 3%
> > > standard error, which means that you just proved that you know less
than
> > > nothing about probability and statistics.
> >
> > About 1400 women? And you think that reflects all women in the country?
> >
> > You are wrong.
> >
>> Which PROVES, once and for all, that you know NOTHING about probability
and
> statistics.
>> No wonder you couldn't do the simplest of calculations.
>> Why don't you tell us, Oh Great White Hope For Women, exactly how many
> Americans The Gallup Organization needs to poll in order to get an
accuracy
> of plus or minus 2%?
>> If you can't answer that question, you will PROVE, once and for all, that
> attempting to educate women is a HUGE mistake, and that spending an EXTRA
$8
> trillion only to get THIS is even worse than a HUGE mistake.
>> John Knight
Gallup polls are political, and don't have teh complexity of an academic
test.
> ps--we already realize that you won't answer this question, and it has
been
> surmised that the reason women don't ever answer such questions is that
they
> "fear" the answers. I disagree. I'm pretty well convinced that you don't
> have the intellectual capacity to grasp these "abstract concepts" which
are
> second nature to most men (not all, but to a majority). To be specific,
the
> probability and statistic question which covered this particular "abstract
> concept", Item J13, is one on which less than 10% of American girls
> demonstrated a proficiency, compared to 55% of American boys, 43% of girls
> internationally, and 77% of Danish boys.
I'm not a woman nor am I American.
