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Re: Interesting statistic
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"Issodhos @aol.com" <[log in to unmask]>
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The philosophy, work & influences of Noam Chomsky
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In a message dated 5/13/00 12:48:07 AM Eastern Daylight Time,
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> One picky point that has bothered me on this thread is the reference to .001
>  percent.  Actually, 1 execution of  every (approximately) thousand criminal
>  homicides constitutes .1 of a percent, for which the corresponding
> proportion
>  would be .001.

   Thank you for the correction.  How embarrassing!:-)
Yours,
Issodhos

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