It’s a person who gets trained in statistics.
That doesn’t explain the references at all.
Google searching has been singularly unhelpful. Kyla, Jillgat, and Monty all made references to it in a nostalgic sort of way back in 2000-1 or thereabouts but no one had the courtesy to link to anything at the time so I wonder if it’s now gone except for a few people’s memories.
This is one way a PM thread ends: he says something laughably stupid ('slightly naughty!") tries to defend it for one or two posts. Bitches about other people in the thread being mean to him, and then just leaves it.
Threads he participates in on this topic end I think when the pain of cognitive dissonance between what he knows to be rational and what he feels he must hate becomes too much.
And then his brain hits “RESET”, and he starts the whole thing over again as if pages and pages of evidence and argument never happened.
Indeed. In that recent ATMB thread LHoD said that in an earlier thread I should have been modded because I got overly personal about Peter. And one of my comments that LHoD said I should have been modded for was telling another poster that there was no point in asking Peter to design an appropriate test for paranormal feats because he would rather give excuses for pages than attempt to do so. I didn’t say that to get at Peter. It’s just a fact based on past experience. If we are going somewhere, let’s get there soon, is my view. Why bother going through those several pages of excuses, ultimately ending in him slouching off with his tail between his legs? Just cut to the chase and reference what happened the last time, is my approach.
Tastes like salt…
You know what else tastes like salt…
Hitler? Because if he did I’d rather not know how you found out.