# obstinate ignorance + obnoxious cockiness = Deltasigma

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**Category:** The BBQ Pit\
**Created:** [October 23, 2013, 7:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obstinate-ignorance-obnoxious-cockiness-deltasigma/672049 "2013-10-23T19:30:02Z")\
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**Author:** ![septimus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/septimus/32/410_2.png) [@septimus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/septimus)\
**Post date:** [October 24, 2013, 1:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obstinate-ignorance-obnoxious-cockiness-deltasigma/672049/11 "2013-10-24T13:58:05Z")

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I’ve Pitted DS in at least two Pit threads where he’s not mentioned in the title. So if Mr. Sigma feels like an underachiever because he’s not in the elite group of Dopers whose names appear in five or more Pit thread titles he can blame me.

Here’s a post from a thread where I finally learned for sure that DS was a pretentious and ignorant blowhard:

> [@Statistics/Mathematics question about periodic events](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/statistics-mathematics-question-about-periodic-events/666278/5):
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> That’s why I said ‘something like’ rather than saying that is precisely what you want. I DO know when I’m out of my depth unlike some people.

Each of the two sentences here is mistaken:  
(1) OP not only didn’t want DS’s recommended Poisson distribution, _he did not want “something like” it_. He wanted “something completely different.”  
(2) If DS knew he was out of his depth on this topic, _why did he post at all_?

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