ORIGINAL: bluebird2
RSB didnt dispute the statewide numbers. He simply explained that they may not be a true and fair comparison due to a shift in the sampling locations. I mentioned it in this thread the same way explaining it as "the rest of the story" Why are you so afraid of the WHOLE story? Whats wrong with having ALL the facts? Unless of course, it doesn't fit your agenda.
RSB did in fact dispute the statewide decline in breeding rates by claiming the decrease was due to shift in sample size and location, even after I pointed out it was statistically impossible and that the southern tier counties still had much higher sample sizes than the northern tier counties. Since RSB continues to misrepresent the cause of the decrease in breeding rates after he has been shown the facts, he is lying and not just mistaken.
And I'll say to you Cornhole, monkeyboy, tantrum boy, your constant and repeated use of the word liar simply because you disagree with someone is every bit as vulgar and childish
Were you being childish and vulgar when you constantly called me a liar ,even though you couldn't back it up?
As for the changes in the statewide breeding rates the part you just don’t seem to get, or simply refuse to acknowledge, is that the difference is not in just how many deer are examined in each area today or last year.
To see the shift in sample representation you have compare the past, for each area, with the present for the same areas. I have presented that data in the past and don’t have the time, or the interest, to dig up those facts of change yet again.
In fact, it simply doesn’t matter if the statewide breeding rates declined or not since we don’t manage deer anywhere in the statewide based on that statewide data. All units are managed based on the data for that specific unit. That unit specific data is pretty favorable and proving that the current management objectives are working toward the intended, unit specific, goals and objectives all across the state.
You are just sour grapes that your twisted theories aren’t being adopted by the professionals that are using scientific data, instead of public whining, to manage the deer toward the correct biological balance with their habitats and long term food supplies.
R.S. Bodenhorn