Path: csiph.com!v102.xanadu-bbs.net!xanadu-bbs.net!feeder.erje.net!us.feeder.erje.net!newsfeed.fsmpi.rwth-aachen.de!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "Mentalguy2k8" Newsgroups: uk.sport.football.clubs.liverpool,comp.arch.arithmetic,alt.support.learning-difficulties Subject: Re: ]v[aths for fun and profit... Date: Mon, 30 Jun 2014 17:29:56 +0100 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 38 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-15"; reply-type=response Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Date: Mon, 30 Jun 2014 16:29:56 +0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: mx05.eternal-september.org; posting-host="51e2cc4fe7c267c1ca027317e1f3f438"; logging-data="20331"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1+ahs3mHYQ68dq1KoE0LGTG1jTBdPwdnLM=" X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.0.6001.18000 In-Reply-To: X-Newsreader: Microsoft Windows Mail 6.0.6001.18000 Cancel-Lock: sha1:6jwGPYgLmw2TrVhkKApCdDaQpkI= X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal Xref: csiph.com comp.arch.arithmetic:73 "Pope Pompous XVIII" wrote in message news:mn.f3817de67535b1a1.134914@pompous-donkey-tours.com... >> "No I don't. I'm not sure you know this but the Catholic priesthood is >> for men only. Straight away that reduces the average by half. I do hope >> you are able to understand this simple bit of arithmetic." > > Yes I could have phrased it better. I also readily admit I've always been > useless at maths. > > Let's try again: if paedophiles number 3-4% of the general adult > population, male and female, then it follows that the number of paedophile > priests *as a percentage of the adult population, male and female* is much > lower than 3-4%, given the number of priests is only a small percentage of > the adult population. > > That better? Not better, it's different to what you originally said but it's still wrong. A percentage is a percentage is a percentage, Popey. If 1 in 5 people are gay, that means statistically, 20% of the population are gay. If you isolate a small (say 5%) group of that population, the incidence of gay people is still statistically 20%, it doesn't reduce just because you've chosen a smaller subset of the original population. 20% of 70 million people is the same ratio as 20% of 6 people, 1:5 or 1 in 5 or 20%. And worse, by excluding women, you're actually making the point that the the (all-male) Priesthood is far more inclined towards paedophilia than the general (mixed) population, because the rest of us have plenty of women among us to bring down the average. The only thing I can guess that you're trying to say is that there are less paedophiles who are priests, than paedophiles who aren't priests. Which may well be true, but given that priests are such a small percentage of the population, it's meaningless unless you express it as a ratio.