Comment Re:Chromosomes? (Score 1) 449
And missing their exit and backing up on the shoulder...
And missing their exit and backing up on the shoulder...
And unfortunately your kids will probably drive just like you, adding to the hammerhead population that refuses to drive in the right lane.
Isn't correlation more an indicator of things the insurance company should investigate re establishing a plausible link to causation? Otherwise they'd be chasing blips in data, e.g. if over some period Virgos (Virgoes ?) had half as many accidents as those born under other astrological signs, would you expect insurance companies to incorporate that into their pricing models?
Why do the slashmongs trot out the "correlation does not imply causation" line as if it's some deep wisdom?
Who cares about causation here? Certainly not the insurance companies, they just want to identify factors correlating with crashes.
Maybe for "slashmongs" like yourself who apparently don't get the (not-so-subtle) difference between causation and correlation?
Insurance companies certainly care about causation, not simply correlation, e.g. if they instituted a "what did you have for breakfast monitor" and found that 20% of their driving population sample ate Brand X cereals before having an accident (aha! correlation!), I doubt they'd offer discounts for households that swore off Brand X cereal.
The first thing I did after graduating from high school was immediately and gladly stop writing in cursive forever. It's been nearly 30 years, and I've never had a use for it, besides my signature.
About the same for me (though I think I stopped cursive in high school), except for one instance when to make some extra $$ during college I signed up to be a UPS "seasonal driver's helper" (i.e. a runner for a package delivery service). During the "training" they had a form where you were asked to write all the letters of the alphabet in upper- and lower-case (in both print and cursive). I had some serious trouble with cursive capitals, was kind of shocking to me at the time that I had forgotten how to produce 4 or 5 letters.
We've all come across users with 40 apps open whining their pc is slow
Likewise, we've all encountered clueless IT departments who force apps onto work PCs that suck the life out of them (e.g. anti-virus crap, various drops of MS Kool-Aid the IT dept has bought into, etc.), then on a support call act as if it is the first time anyone has ever complained about the situation.
They can default on bonds they have issued, though, can't they?
My professional wild assed guess is that it cost the industry 1 billion to implement and maybe 1 million a year to maintain/support.
Not sure what your profession is, but if your guesses are as poor as the one above I'd suggest some vocational retraining. Let's say that 20 million lines get ported every year, and 2% fall out of the mainstream (i.e. easy) category -- that's 400k orders in need of manual intervention (on both sides of the port, at that), and each order certainly costs a LEC more than $1.25 to process at that point (figuring a fully-loaded cost for tier-2 support of $20/hr at least).
FWIW, I work for a telephony provider and we see approximately 1 call per day to emergency services per 1k lines.
Weather it works or not, that's not their concern.
But they probably do bring an umbrella if they're really worried about the whether.
FWIW, "rickrolling" made today's New York Times crossword puzzle. Clue was "Widespread Internet prank involving a bait-and-switch link to a music video":
http://www.crosswordmanblog.com/2009/04/nyt-monday-41309-rick-trick.html
Things are rarely ever so clear-cut as to guarantee a particular result.
For example, say the employee has a 5-year old signed/notarized/whatever document that says "You now have 10% of the shares of the company". What if the board (most likely the owner/founder in a small co.) in the interim issued 10 times more shares and diluted her stake of the outstanding shares to 1%? Or issued 100 times more and diluted her stake to
"Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love." -- Albert Einstein
