JL--I LOVE recommendations!! I will look for the vegonaise soonest!!
I've been using Whole Foods canola mayo-no hydrogenated oils, no oil but good-for-you canola. AND no sugar.
But-I'm anxious to checkout grape-seed veganaise. Thanks!!
Hey-I'm a girl (and I love Florida, and these people,) but I can't join up with them, much as I'd really love to (schniff)
Paddy will be very upset, Joan. He'll sulk for weeks.
Just a teeny weeny little trip? Itty bitty?
PLEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEASE?
JLN, I wish you could join us. When I've gotten together with the Boston crowd, it is a mixed group.
Do you think you could get to Tucson? Some of us met there last Spring. I go every year to visit my brother. Cobalt is in Mesa now and I'm hoping that I can get a few others to meet with me the next time I go.
Rae, I've pm'd you with my phone number in Florida so we can set something up when I get down there. Really looking forward to it.
Oh, Rae Darlin! How I'd love that! I promise it WILL happen! This I can do-my parents lived in Florida (Juno Beach) for 25 years, and I still have a cousin on Jupiter Inlet Colony. I WILL come toFlorida-my pleasure.
Only Rupert is a different sort of state now--old. Can't leave him, can't take him.
But Florida trip is most definately in my future. Ask Paddy to wait for me,please?
Hi again everybody! Sorry I was away studying for so many days... My final exam is today and then I graduate this afternoon and I will officially be a Chef! And then I'm going to take a few days off to decompress before getting a job. I'm coming back to Boston and I want to see all the Bostonian a2kers! We must plan a gathering!
Hope the Floridians have a nice gathering too. Joan, it's so much fun to see everyone in person.
days off..coming back...when????
woohoo
Days off starting RIGHT NOW! Coming to Boston SOON!
Lessee, I have a doctor's appointment tomorrow morning, so I can't make it before tomorrow night or Friday or so. I need to see my aesthetician and my photographer, in that order, while in town. And you! All I need to figure out between now and then is where I'm going to sleep. When I figure that out, I will know how long I'll be in town.
I love Boston!
Did I see that right? Joan said yes? OHMYGAWD.....
<thump.....she's fainted again>
Do we have a mathematician in the house? What is the name given to the type of curve suggested by the poll results?
Criminy. It's a bell curve, of sorts (though this term is really meant to describe numbers of measurements that fall within a particular range of values).
OK, I guess I thought the bell curve had to be more pronounced.
If this describes a set of exam scores, you would have 2 students who scored between 10 and 20%, 8 between 21 and 30%, 14 between 30 and 40%, 15 between 40and 50%, 14 between 50 and 60%, 7 between 60 and 70%, and 2 between 70 and 80%.
In addition to telling the instructor that either the exam was too difficult or their teaching methods ineffective, it illustrates the idea that if a number of measurements of the same property are made (i.e., student retention of a particular set of material) and an average is calculated, most of the measurements will be close to the average value. The more precise the measuring tool (or the more parity there is among the students) the steeper the slope of the bell curve will be. It is, among other things, a way of determining the precision (not the accuracy but the precision) of a laboratory instrument.
Or so I understand it. Misapprehension is always a risk.
Wouldja look at that!
(If I were a little less anal, it wouldn't bother me that the symmetry is *just* off, but I am currently hoping that one more 61-70 yr-old [just one!!!!] will show up and vote.)
Perty cool, though.
Ya know, I was thinking about trying to derive an equation to roughly describe the curve (turned on it's side, of course), and gave up largely for that very reason? Couldn't bear to fudge the data...
<nerd alert...nerd alert>
I was trying to remember how to calculate the bell curve, but my stats course was too long ago. ;( c.i.
Haven't taken it yet. I actually like that kind of stuff, though a course will probably suffice to kill that.
is this where nerds admit they enjoyed stats so much, they took extra stats courses at university instead of 'bird' courses?
errrrrrr, if it is, i know 'someone'. they might be dressed all in green today.
<sigh>
We did one stats tutorial in Biology 104. It's like watching paint dry.
