One of the ways I get annoyed

[redbird]

I didn't exactly lose my temper. I did get angry, and analytical. The person it's aimed at probably doesn't know--because part of the problem is that he keeps posting in alt.polyamory, but never participates in any kind of discussion. I responded to one of his posts, pointing out glaring flaws in the statistics he was quoting. He didn't answer that, just posted something else on his pet hobbyhorse a few days later (so I knew he wasn't off in the middle of nowhere, but had Usenet access).

My response to that had the subject "Does Don Saklad understand newsgroups?" That got me email, but still no newsgroup response, and led to my posting the following on alt.poly:

Following up to myself, since the person I was addressing
didn't:

Quoth Vicki Rosenzweig <vr@redbird.org> on Thu, 11 Jul 2002 11:04:42 -0400:

>How about a bit more examination before you post misleading
>statistics?
>
>This is--as you note--based on a survey of gay and bisexual men
>under the age of 30. It's reasonable, if the study was designed
>properly (and I believe it was) to extrapolate from the 5,719
>men studied to the set of American gay and bi men under age 30.
>
>It's *not* reasonable to extrapolate to all American men: the
>amount of knowledge might be different for het men, for gay
>and bi men older than 29, or both.
>

In response to my more recent "Does Don Saklad understand newsgroups"
he emailed me an invitation to send along my questions. I wrote back,
somewhat grumpily:

>Have you actually read what I posted, or are you just grepping for
>our name?
>
>I don't have a question. I pointed out an important statistical error
>in your post to alt.polyamory, and you have not responded to my
>posting.

That got me an invitation to "contact the source of that interesting
piece" and let him know what they said.

My conclusion is that Don Saklad is not interested in talking to
people, *and* that he's not capable of spotting large statistical
holes in what he reposts. Or, perhaps, that he isn't reading through
articles if their headlines support his agenda.

I could, of course, be wrong. I look forward to comments here.

Comments

[pir-anha.livejournal.com]

My conclusion is that Don Saklad is not interested in talking to people

*ding*.

when he first showed up i did a search for him, and quickly found out that alt.poly was just the latest of his victims. he's a nutcase. arguing with nutcases is futile. i finally scored him down him when i became too busy to read all of alt.poly all of the time.

-piranha (*waves* at vicki)

[redbird]

Vicki *waves* back at her favorite fish, and adds zir to her friends list