[WWI] 1 rb paper critique

[Shane Weier]

iban says (once you take the trouble to read him)

>>Any analytical conclusions are meaningless unless you want to prove the 
>>whole exercise was a waste of time.

>but that's just it, mike.  yes, fame is subjective, tho no less real and 
>influential a factor in daily life for all that, both then and now.

I have a sneaking suspicion that we're talking at cross purposes here. the 
original article proposed that MvR was merely a statictical outrider - that 
one in a thousand data point way outside the Bell curve, whose existence can 
be prediced by statisitics. IOW, *someone* was bound to be lucky enough to 
survive that long.

A second article comparing the degree of fame with the actual score has also 
raised it's head (and I can't recall who introduced it) and I think the two 
of you are talking about different studies

Shane

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