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Old 09-10-2007, 06:12 PM
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Kirk

Roy doesn't do these kind of studies. The reason he doesn't is that he knows
that the guns were not built, or shipped, in serial number order.

I think you are not being objective with yourself. I think that the reason you
want to look at this data is to uncover some relationship between the shipping
date and the serial number. Maybe it's enjoyable for you to do this. But the
reality is that there is no relationship, other that they obvious long long term
connection.

I argue that it is a misleading effort - just by virture of the fact that you are
doing it, and presenting it to others. Its entirely possible that some short
sequence will be in perfect correlation. But that would be entirely coincidental.
It is not a cause and effect relationship, but I suspect that if you came across
such a sequence, you would think that it was important, or at the very least,
interesting.

The relationship between serial numbers and shipping dates is random, by definition
of the production practice. Its misleading to look for meaning in random data.

Later, Mike Priwer
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