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Wednesday, May 17, 2006

REGRESSION TO THE MEAN

MrArchieBunker is on the mic choking his chicken as he waxes poetical about Western Culture (TM), and our superiority over the benighted hordes. I'm reminded of the scene in I, Robot, when Will Smith is interrogating Sonny, the NS-5 bot:

Det. Spooner - "Can you write a symphony, or turn a blank canvas into a beautiful masterpiece?"
Sonny - "Can you?"

Now, I'm sure that the distribution of some spearman's g-like variable tracking the overall quality of West vs East might very well show the mean of Western Culture to be further to the right. But that hardly means that individual specimens within each culture will reflect that difference.

All of which is by way of saying that, in the standings for World's Worst Person, you'd still have to be a pisspoor muslim to compete with someone as rotten as MrArchieBunker. In case you're wondering, it's the extra dash of bigotry that Arch sprinkles in that really tilts the judges his way.

JC

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