RE: Small probabilities

I really do not know how you would go about performing such an
experiment.

Moorad

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From: asa-owner@lists.calvin.edu [mailto:asa-owner@lists.calvin.edu] On
Behalf Of Don Winterstein
Sent: Monday, November 07, 2005 2:57 PM
To: asa@lists.calvin.edu; Bill Hamilton
Subject: Re: Small probabilities

The probability of picking a point is one. The probability of picking a
specific point is zero.

Don

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        From: Bill Hamilton <mailto:williamehamiltonjr@yahoo.com>

        To: asa@lists.calvin.edu

        Sent: Sunday, November 06, 2005 6:01 AM

        Subject: Small probabilities

        I read Dembski's response to Henry Morris
        (http://www.calvin.edu/archive/asa/200510/0514.html)
        and noted that it raised an old issue I've harped on before:
that you can
        specify a probability below which chance is eliminated. There is
a
        counterexample given (among other places) in Davenport and
Root's book "Random
        Signals and Noise" (McGraw Hill, probably sometime in the early
60's) that goes
        like this:
        Draw a line 1 inch long. Randomly pick a single point on that
line. The
        probability of picking any point on the line is identically
zero. Yet a point
        is picked. Am I missing something?
        
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