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And thanks for the nodding acknowledgement (on that point) from your camera angle.  
Been 30+ years since calculus class and don't have the advanced stats training, so it's always fresh to hear a tidbit here and there, more formally.  (Did get a fair number of credits in probability theory, simple stats, experimental design & control but nothing comparable to a stats or chem degree.)
James is also not a formal statistician -- he cheerfully concedes the points at which things go over his head.  But it always boggled the mind how he --- > saw at a glance the things that others can't get in a month's study.  If there's any faint echo of that at SSI, we're glad.
Dr. G, Dr. K, Mojo, Rick, SABRMatt, all the amigos who bring in the detailed training, it's always a treat.  And obviously the check-and-balance is welcome, as it is at BJOL.
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Taking your point a bit emotionally further :- ) it drives me batty to hear guys intone "sample size" when anything further in the discussion - variance, asymmetry of curves, confounding variables!, what a representative sample is, etc - goes instantly over their heads.
But ... "Be aware that we know what we're talking about here," eh Panda :- )
As Sinbad would say, "You ain't from the 'hood.  Be y'self."