ORIGINAL: GMMAT
Here's what I said to PT in another thread:
If you have a poll that asks 100 baseball players.....this question:
What's the hardest thing about hitting a slider?
Their choices are:
No. 1 - Picking up the rotation
No. 2 - Keeping your weight back
Now...you get the results.....and the results say 77 to 23 that No. 1- Picking up the rotation .....is the hardest thing about hitting a slider. You'd think you had your answer now, wouldn't you???
But the facts are......74 of your "baseball players" were little leaguers.....and 28 of them were pitchers.
Now.....you realize you ONLY had 9 college and Professional players in your control group.....and 3 of them were pitchers.
WHAT HAVE YOU LEARNED?
Nothing.
How horrible it must be for you to have to sift through all the comments by "little leaguers" just to find the few select elite ones that are worthy of your consideration.
If I'd wanted to PM everyone "I thought had pertinent information for my poll.....you'd have ridiculed me for singling out some members and for omitting others. I couldn't win, either way.
No I wouldn't have............I would have never known about it.
But why do YOU care, Atlas?
Because it is VERY insulting to many members here for you to say that you don't care What people say but rather WHO is saying it. You're wasting everyone's time who try to respond to your comment thinking they are helping you or that you at least care what they have to say.
Why did you respond if you thought it was baseless? We both know the real answer to that question, don't we
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See above.