Brian:
> This tautology doesn't change the fact that it's a
> methodological error to refuse a priori to reconstruct
> something simply because it's rare.
It's certainly a logical error when one does. Statistics is an
all-pervasive thing, not isolated just to mathematics but to
everyday life in general.
Babies even learn by simple statistics. They learn to generalize
based on a commonly seen pattern in order to make sense of the world.
As they grow older and adapt, their generalizations will become more
precise.
You fail to understand this somehow and want to make an us-you
confrontation out of this, claiming that I "refuse a priori" to
reconstruct a rarity. No, my strategy is to _avoid_ anything rarer
**until** there is a reason to do so. Slightly different.
= gLeN