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Re: Massacre in Las Vegas.
« Reply #280 on: October 10, 2017, 09:47:55 PM »
By the way... it occurs to me... I am hanging out on DDF right now but I wonder what kind of insights they have on gambling forums. Anybody here dabbles in those forums? I'd love to know what they are saying there.

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Re: Massacre in Las Vegas.
« Reply #281 on: October 10, 2017, 09:50:54 PM »
By the way... it occurs to me... I am hanging out on DDF right now but I wonder what kind of insights they have on gambling forums. Anybody here dabbles in those forums? I'd love to know what they are saying there.
No but I bet they are ROFLTAO at some of the news reports.
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Re: Massacre in Las Vegas.
« Reply #282 on: October 10, 2017, 09:59:08 PM »
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nope. of all the 10,000+ ddfers on here, nobody/the majority would not come even close to that. and no, they are not meaningless habits, they are negative, chronic, degrading, and harmful actions.

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Re: Massacre in Las Vegas.
« Reply #283 on: October 10, 2017, 10:01:02 PM »
No but I bet they are ROFLTAO at some of the news reports.

yes, about the gambling comments, however the stats of mass murderers (10+ innocent victims in the USA) who were also daily seasoned online video gamers/shooters is much higher than those who were daily gamblers.
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Re: Massacre in Las Vegas.
« Reply #284 on: October 10, 2017, 10:09:31 PM »
yes, about the gambling comments,
That's what I meant.
...however the stats of mass murderers (10+ innocent victims in the USA) who were also daily seasoned online video gamers/shooters is much higher than those who were daily gamblers.
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Re: Massacre in Las Vegas.
« Reply #285 on: October 10, 2017, 10:19:36 PM »
You know how your aunt thinks that you are the ultimate miles and points gangster and would be shocked to realize that there are many, many people much, much bigger and better at this game than you are?

Well, I think it's the exact same thing with us even batting an eye at this guy playing through millions of dollars in an evening. I would not be too surprised if there were thousands of guys in this category within a 90 minute drive of Vegas. And I am sure all of them wear dockers and don't look rich at all.

In other words, my point is the fact that this guy was a high roller in Vegas is not such a significant "clue" here. It's representative of a whole category of people.

Just imagine that ch"v a DDFer did a crime and the media made a big to do trying to connect the dots by discovering some of his "weird" behavior. "Well, it seems here that he once made $200,000 in purchases in one year at Staples!" You know how "suspicious" that would sound to most people and yet how absolutely irrelevant it would be to you and me. You'd be thinking, "Is that ALL?"

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Re: Massacre in Las Vegas.
« Reply #286 on: October 10, 2017, 10:36:03 PM »
yes, about the gambling comments, however the stats of mass murderers (10+ innocent victims in the USA) who were also daily seasoned online video gamers/shooters is much higher than those who were daily gamblers.

https://www.quora.com/Do-you-feel-theres-a-correlation-between-violent-television-shows-or-video-games-and-violent-behavior-in-children-teens

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Re: Massacre in Las Vegas.
« Reply #287 on: October 10, 2017, 10:45:16 PM »

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Re: Massacre in Las Vegas.
« Reply #288 on: October 10, 2017, 10:47:31 PM »
I don't want to start humming the song that never ends but wasn't that addictive thread with people asking questions of a pilot on a gambling forum? Maybe someone can take a look over there and report back to us?

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Re: Massacre in Las Vegas.
« Reply #289 on: October 10, 2017, 10:47:43 PM »
yes, about the gambling comments, however the stats of mass murderers (10+ innocent victims in the USA) who were also daily seasoned online video gamers/shooters is much higher than those who were daily gamblers.

Sample size cannot possibly be significant so any stats are bunk
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Re: Massacre in Las Vegas.
« Reply #290 on: October 10, 2017, 10:48:52 PM »
Correlation does not equal causation. For those who say, "C'mon, of course it does!", please visit http://www.tylervigen.com and get back to me.

I took a class once and learned that. Some would say the class helped, but not necessarily.
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Re: Massacre in Las Vegas.
« Reply #291 on: October 10, 2017, 10:56:57 PM »
Correlation does not equal causation. For those who say, "C'mon, of course it does!", please visit http://www.tylervigen.com and get back to me.
It isn't equal, but it is highly correlated.
« Last Edit: October 10, 2017, 11:29:06 PM by aygart »
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Re: Massacre in Las Vegas.
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Re: Massacre in Las Vegas.
« Reply #293 on: October 10, 2017, 11:37:08 PM »
It isn't equal, but it is highly correlated.
High correlations may be interesting, but can often be entirely meaningless, and by itself often not all that useful. Please check out tylervigen.com - it's actually fascinating to see.

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Re: Massacre in Las Vegas.
« Reply #294 on: October 10, 2017, 11:39:30 PM »
High correlations may be interesting, but can often be entirely meaningless, and by itself often not all that useful. Please check out tylervigen.com - it's actually fascinating to see.
I am quite familiar. I may have been the OP of that site on DDF.
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Re: Massacre in Las Vegas.
« Reply #295 on: October 10, 2017, 11:49:41 PM »
Correlation does not equal causation. For those who say, "C'mon, of course it does!", please visit http://www.tylervigen.com and get back to me.

I agree with that 100%.
If anyone wants to make correlations than they will have to tackle that graph first.
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Re: Massacre in Las Vegas.
« Reply #296 on: October 10, 2017, 11:51:55 PM »
I agree with that 100%.
If anyone wants to make correlations than they will have to tackle that graph first.
Science is mostly based on correlation. Antibiotics are highly correlated with cured bacterial infections etc.
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Re: Massacre in Las Vegas.
« Reply #297 on: October 10, 2017, 11:53:48 PM »
You know want is odd is they say the paper they found had trajectory calculations. He was shooting in full auto so what calculations did he need?
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Re: Massacre in Las Vegas.
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