[WikiEN-l] Re: Not with a Bot (Israel) resent--hit enter button early

Wed Sep 17 21:44:46 UTC 2003

Steve Vertigum wrote:

>Why dont you email Chomsky Daniel. Im not an expert. Read that link on the email too. I think you two would hit it off--dont axe me why.
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Chomsky is notorious for his advocacy; he is by no stretch of the 
imagination
a trustworthy neutral authority.

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>We can agree then that 1. there are standards which would cause us to void some statistics-- we can refuse to be ignorant and 2. admit that statistics are not unpolitical-- that we not simply take them at face value.  We can agree that 3. these statistics are of questionable statistical value since they deal with ethnic divisions which are based on dubious ethnic distinctions.
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>We can also agree to 4. use the .il statistics anyway provided we violate their "moral" copyright-- And AS I SAID THREE times: **Not with a bot.  A bot's use represents a privelidged means of access to the Wikipedia. Such a privelige must not be given to POV numbers. They are not statistics---the science behind them is poor. They are merely numbers.
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"In your opinion." A POV claim that "Israel is an apartheid state" does not
constitute evidence that any numbers have been falsified.

Stan