rooting for Goliath

[PSUSkinsFan21]

Originally Posted by Huddle

In the stats debate, you tried to taunt me and browbeat me into setting myself up for some flim-flam logic. Now, if you had just asked me nicely if I could prove that your Aaron Brooks claim was untrue, I would have told you that I could not.

I would have added that if you claimed that Santa existed, I could not prove you wrong either. And, if you claimed Elvis lives, I could not have proved that wrong either.

Unfortunately, the thread was locked before we got to that point.

Do you want to finish it here?

Why bother? Is there any way short of God striking you down that you'll admit you're wrong? I see no point to continue an argument in which you were proven wrong by a number of members of this site, yet failed to admit or recognize such.

And what the heck are you talking about? If you asked me nice. What? First of all, when I first asked that question, I was anything but hostile. Second, to the extent you believe you are entitled to any special courtesies, I can assure you I've never treated you with any less respect than you have shown to the other members of this site including myself. Third, to the extent you believe I need to ask you to answer my question in a certain or extraordinarily polite way: this isn't college, you are not my professor, and you are no better than me or anyone else on this site. Finally, your above post just proves that you completely missed the point of the Aaron Brooks argument (either that or you've intentially side-stepped it), and I have no interest in trying to explain it to you all over again. Last I saw, however, I don't know of too many people who have used statistics to show that Santa Claus exists or that Elvis is dead (which, by the way, are factual issues, not matters of opinion that are supportable or not supportable by statistics).