dragonmgmt

Thanks! I purchased it as a 9.8 with the Stan Lee and Michael Rooker sigs already on it...I'm just blown away that it stayed a 9.8. Again, Doug and Scott obviously handled it with the greatest of care.

Five signatures, three conventions, and one sketch artist later... All praise to dscott for shuttling this thing around the country and Scott Blair for the sketch.

Josh sent payment immediately after we agreed on a price. Highly recommended.

Read 'em and weep, boys.

Purchased two Silver Age books from James. He was reasonable, communicative throughout the purchase process, and packed the books extremely well. It should come as no surprise to anyone on the boards that I HIGHLY RECOMMEND him. Keep up the great work, James!

Color me excited Yeah, this is good chit.

I was under the impression that Marvel and Fox made a deal with Silver Surfer since Fox did not produce an FF movie in time to keep the rights. Any one know about this?

I deserved being called a knob. By the way, in case anyone missed it, bffnut has done a really wonderful job with this project. Keep up the good work!

The comment was patronizing, snarky (whatever you want to call it) because saying that you don't trust the stats (or didn't trust the "extrapolation" from the sample to the population) is the same thing as saying you don't believe in the basic premise of what an entire field of study is built upon, a field that is pervasive in every area of policy, business, and high level decision making in Western society. To say that you don't trust the extrapolation is to render judgement on the veracity of the conclusions that stats, as a field, can make, which is, in my opinion, really silly, thus deserving of some snarkiness. The latitude to disagree with the numbers is built into the stats bffnut provided: the confidence interval. It was an ill informed, however well intentioned, opinion that was based on anecdotal evidence, but my annoyance stemmed from the unwillingness to change the opinion based on..... AWW F IT. Here's a picture of a cute puppy.

Me, giving ComicsNYC what he wants.

Me, incredulous.

Balham, I love it when people use "knob" as a put down. Seriously. It's not used enough in the States.

And this, ladies and gentlemen, is why remediation is necessary in post-secondary institutions. Sheesh. slym, just admit that statistics isn't your thing and that you're trusting your gut on this one. That would be more honest than trying to takedown an entire field of study. You are being a bit of a knob about this. That's pretty much exactly what his post that you quoted says. What more do you want? Let him have his opinion and kick back feeling smug about how deep your understanding of stats is. Yes, I am being a knob about slym's willful dismissal of fairly sound statistical evidence re: the percentage of black labels vs. white labels. At least three people have pointed out that the methodology is appropriate and that the findings tend to contradict slym's anecdotal evidence. At this point, he has admitted he might be wrong about the white vs black label issue (which is not what prompted my snarky reply) but continues to assert that "I don't trust that extrapolation," meaning he doesn't trust what statistics is capable of doing in terms of making claims about a population based on a small sample (which was the cause of my snarky reply). My understanding of stats is above average but not stellar. The stats stuff people have been talking about on the board here can be found with a simple Google search. I'm not being smug; I'm asking that someone yield at least part of their opinion to the quantifiable evidence gathered by bffnut, and then, I'm scoffing when that someone still believes their gut instead, which in this matter (about prints runs) seems just silly.

And this, ladies and gentlemen, is why remediation is necessary in post-secondary institutions. Sheesh. slym, just admit that statistics isn't your thing and that you're trusting your gut on this one. That would be more honest than trying to takedown an entire field of study.

Thanks. Missed that in your original post. Already done, my friend! :Thumbsup:

You're asking for population data. Statistics, by definition, is concerned with sample data that can then be applied to the population. If we had population data, we wouldn't need statistics. I think you're missing the point entirely. And, as bffnut gathers more data, his findings become more and more compelling. Think about how much data would have to be found in order to support Kirkman's #s vs bffnut's #s. (Hey, bffnut, can you work that up? How many new data points would have to be recorded in order to support Kirkman's estimates?) The point is, you're relying on a very informed source, but that informed source is still making an educated guess. bffnut's #s may not be the exact truth, but a 95% CI for this type of work is about as good as it gets in academia and business.

Sticking with Kirkman on this seems a bit silly, especially in light of the data. Kirkman is a writer, not a statistician. He's a guy making an educated guess based on his own anecdotal, not statistical, data. While he's def an authority on many things WD, it doesn't mean that he knows the errors runs on his books. It will be interesting to see if these numbers will be further refined as more data comes in.

Great seller. Would do business with again in a heartbeat. A++++

Groot from Planet X...one and the same as Groot from GotG. And I have to give a shout out to bffnut, who snagged it for me a Megacon for WAAAAAY less than it is worth. He knew I was looking for it in order to get it signed, he saw it in a longbox, and sold it to me for what he paid. True friend.

As best as I can tell, this is the highest graded SS in the census. WOOT!! (Sorry about the poor image quality.)