From: martinharran@gmail.com
On Mon, 02 Feb 2026 15:49:38 -0800, Vincent Maycock
wrote:
>On Mon, 02 Feb 2026 12:45:26 +0000, Martin Harran
> wrote:
>
>>On Thu, 29 Jan 2026 22:22:27 -0800, Mark Isaak
>> wrote:
>>
>>>On 1/29/26 8:50 AM, Martin Harran wrote:
>>>> On Thu, 29 Jan 2026 08:29:34 -0800, Mark Isaak
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> On 1/27/26 4:48 PM, Vincent Maycock wrote:
>>
>>[…]
>>
>>>>>>> Right through your posts above e.g. your very poor understanding of
>>>>>>> statistical surveys.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> You claimed adolescents were not a representative sample of the
>>>>>> population at large, and I said IQ scores tend to be stable by
>>>>>> adolescence, and that therefore the methods in the study being
>>>>>> discussed were a valid use of statistical sampling.
>>>>>
>>>>> You are correct about that, but I don't think religious belief is stable
>>>>> by adolescence. It certainly was not in my case.
>>>>
>>>> Perhaps you would be kind enough to also confirm that results from a
>>>> survey of adolescents cannot be applied to the general population.
>>>> Vincent is rather reluctant to accept it from me.
>>>
>>>It depends on what you're surveying, and whether there have been any
>>>demographic shifts in that quality over time. For qualities such as
>>>handedness, eye color, or IQ, I expect a survey of adolescents would be
>>>a pretty good indicator of the population as a whole, barring influences
>>>such as, say, a mass immigration of foreign workers who tend to be older
>>>and have different eye colors than the original native population.
>>
>>Those are physical attributes, Vincent's survey is about attitudinal
>>aspect, not physical attributes.
>
>Marks on a paper are just as physical as types of eye color.
Now you are just trying to be silly so I think this discussion really
has exceeded its shelf life.
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