User talk:INic

Request

Thank you for your changes to Probability theory. And I have one request. Would you mind using the edit summary more often when you contribute. It is rather helpful, at least for me, when I stuble into some change on my watchlist, to get a contributor's view of what he changed. Thanks a lot, Oleg Alexandrov (talk) 01:56, 4 December 2005 (UTC)

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vandalism

At frequency probability, I added this:

Frequentists assign probabilities only to random events according to their relative frequencies of occurrence, or to subsets of populations as proportions of the whole. They refuse to assign probabilities to things that cannot be so interpreted. For example, if one were to attribute a probability of 1/2 to the proposition that there was life on Mars a billion years ago, one would violate frequentist canons, because one cannot say that there was life on Mars a billion years ago in 1/2 of all cases. Such degree-of-belief assignments of probability are used in Bayesian probability theory.

In an edit summary, you called this whole paragraph "vandalism". I think the material you called vandalism is factually correct, very much on-topic and well-positioned within the article, and in conformance with Wikipedia's NPOV policy. I've taught probability and statistics at the University of Minnesota, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the University of North Carolina at Pembroke, and the University of Toledo. I also have far more experience editing Wikipedia articles on topics related to this and on other topics than you do. "Vandalism" is not defined as "material that User talk:INic doesn't like. You are using the word incredibly promiscuously and stupidly. Michael Hardy 21:19, 10 May 2006 (UTC)

What I considered vandalism is that the very definition of what a frequency probability is vanished after your edit. The concept of a random experiment is essential, as well as to define a sample space. A "random event" can't in general be assigned a frequency probability. This is a very crusial point I think. Don't you? Your edit totally destroyed the essence of what a frequency probability is. Please correct me if I'm wrong. In addition you talk about bayesianism in your contribution with an example about martians that is nowhere to be found in the references in the article. Isn't it good practice at wikipedia to only have material in the articles that readers can find references to in the article? iNic 21:35, 10 May 2006 (UTC)

INic, you've made it evident that any attempt to engage you in discussion is a waste of time. You've repeatedly shown you know nothing about Wikipedia and much less than you think about the topic under discussion, while insulting everyone else who edits the page. Until you change your attitude, you're wasting your time here JQ 11:12, 24 May 2006 (UTC)

Two-envelopes paradox

The problem is not to find another way to calculate that doesn't lead to contradictions (that is easy), but to pinpoint the erroneous step in the presented reasoning leading to the contradiction. That includes to be able to say exactly why that step is not correct, and under what conditions it's not correct, so we can be absolutely sure we don't make this mistake in a more complicated situation where the fact that it's wrong isn't this obvious. So far none have managed to give an explanation that others haven't objected to. That some of the explanations are very mathematical in nature might indicate that at least some think that this is a subtle problem in need of a lot of mathematics to be fully understood. You are, of course, free to disagree!

Well said, and applicable to many articles on paradoxes. 192.75.48.150 17:39, 29 August 2006 (UTC)

Thank you! iNic 22:41, 29 August 2006 (UTC)

Last Warnings

This is your Last Warning. Deleting legitimate content from a Wikipedia article, as you did to that on the St. Petersburg paradox, is vandalism. If again you vandalize an article, then you will be blocked from further edits. —SlamDiego 21:55, 8 February 2007 (UTC)

1. Willfully damaging any article, even if you think that it will provoke the writing of a better article, is vandalism.
2. Removing vandalism warnings liek that above from your talk page is itself a violation of Wikipedia rules.

—SlamDiego 04:07, 9 February 2007 (UTC)