H7140 PDP 11/24 Power Supply Advice

From: Carlos Murillo <cmurillo_at_emtelsa.multi.net.co>
Date: Thu Nov 15 20:55:05 2001

At 12:01 AM 11/16/01 +0000, you wrote:
>In my opinion, haivng a degree (or any other qualification) in a subject
>has 0 correlation with how good you actually are at that subject....
>
>In my case, I have a piece of paper saying that I am a particle
>physicist. In practice, I don't know the first thing about (say) QCD.
>
>I have no pieces of paper saying I am an electrical engineer, electronic
>engineer, computer scientist, programmer, or anything related to
>computers or electronics. But in practice I can generally understand most
>areas of electronics or computing well enough to get the job done.
>
>-tony

That's one data point. The estimation of the variance of the population
is infinite then.

C'mon, Tony, I am sure that the correlation is positive. Otherwise, you'd
be discrediting the intelligence of every human. But I'll have to agree
with you in that it is not close enough to 1.0 .

carlos.

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Carlos E. Murillo-Sanchez carlos_murillo_at_nospammers.ieee.org
Received on Thu Nov 15 2001 - 20:55:05 GMT

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