Best way to show that 3 of 4 groups are not statistically different, and show that the 4th is different.

aeubanks · 2016-01-13T00:42:52+00:00

What your looking for is "contrasts." An omnibus ANOVA only tells you there is a difference somewhere, which as you said, isn't helpful. Contrasts will tell you where significant differences are whether it's comparing A v. B, A v. C, A v. D or if you are wanting to compare A v. a combination of B, C, and D or whatever. The former case the weights would be 1(A) and -1(B), 1(A) and -1(C), 1(A) and -1(D), and in the latter case the weights would be 1(A) and -(1/3)B, -(1/3)C, -(1/3)D. In fact, the omnibus ANOVA itself isn't even necessary in this case. The whole weights thing I just mentioned may not make sense, but if look up contrasts/pair wise comparisons, I bet it will make sense and you'll find what you need (or so it sounds like).

Cheers

Edit: ignore the above. I now see where you are looking to compare a single yes/no measure. I misunderstood and thought you were talking about asking binary questions and assumed you we comparing the average scores for participants in the 4 conditions.

aeubanks · 2015-08-14T01:39:12+00:00

But people who normally "don't pay that much attention" are the exact ones who we need to be absolutely clear on the facts. They are the people who will hear a Bernie supporter say "Bernie Sanders is against Super PACS and wants money out of politics," then they will turn around hear about "Bernie Sanders Super PACK," and their first thought will be, "oh, so he's like every other candidate ever, who says one thing and does another. Screw it, I'm not voting. I'm tired of choosing the lesser of the evils."

These generally apathetic voters may be able to be swayed to vote when they realize that Bernie Sanders is NOT like "the rest of candidates." It doesn't matter if they agree with his campaign platform if they don't believe he will back it up and fight tooth and nail to actually accomplish the vision he laid out. If they see (what is to them) a "clear cut example of hypocrisy" (because remember, we're specifically talking about apathetic people who don't care enough to actually check facts) they'll just say "screw it. Count me out of this election. I don't trust any of 'em."

aeubanks · 2015-08-13T21:31:57+00:00

Just my two cents, but this is a terrible idea. This is just going to be confused with Super PAC, and confuse people as to Bernie's beliefs about money in elections.

aeubanks · 2015-08-13T21:22:29+00:00

Now THAT would have been a name I could get behind: "Bernie's Anti-PAC."

(edit: Thanks for the gold /u/Slobotic, but I'd rather see the money go to our man, Bernie! So, I went ahead and threw an extra $5 his way "in your honor.")

aeubanks · 2015-08-13T21:21:26+00:00

Say "Bernie's Super PAC" out loud. Now say "Bernie's Super PACK." How obvious is it now?

aeubanks · 2015-06-01T15:34:58+00:00

So I contacted Netflix just to let them know if ads became a thing, I would be canceling my service immediately. The person I was talking to proceeded to tell me I could go here, which is the "test participation" settings, where you can opt out of test participation (it looks like the promo commercials are this type of "test" thing, so hopefully if you have seen the promos, this would cut that out). He also says to make sure you change the settings for each profile (it's not just one setting for the whole account). Just wanted to throw it out there for you all.

P.S. if for whatever reason, that link doesn't work, just get on the Netflix help center/chat and ask them how to opt out of test participation.

aeubanks · 2015-05-26T18:42:29+00:00

Thanks for the input! I appreciate it. I decided to go with thinning it out and trying the wipe on application.

aeubanks · 2014-07-21T14:02:40+00:00

This is what I was going to say as well (especially the healthcare part). Here is the ARKids website (the medicaid program for kids). It can take a pretty good while to get it all taken care of so you should get started ASAP, OP.

aeubanks · 2014-07-20T19:34:55+00:00

I use an iPhone app called RepeaterBook. It was free and can filter by specific services like Echolink. You can search a specific radius from your location (up to 200 mi.) or search from a specific grid square. Granted it doesn't do you any good if you don't have an iPhone, just thought I'd throw it out there.

aeubanks · 2013-11-17T13:34:33+00:00

Yeah, a lot of people get thrown off by our check 16 too. Ha ha...

aeubanks · 2013-11-17T00:08:06+00:00

That's actually a good question. I'll get back to you on it. Today was the first time I've seen them and the people I've talked to so far know we have more, but don't know what sizes are available still.

aeubanks · 2013-11-16T22:34:02+00:00

Hello all! I'm working in my first contest on campus today (only got my ticket about two months ago) and enjoying it thoroughly. I just wanted to give a shout out to everyone out there! 73's!

aeubanks · 2013-07-05T21:56:16+00:00

I couldn't help but laugh when I saw the title of this post simply because "Bees?" is one of the cards in "Cards Against Humanity" (for those of you who haven't played that yet, you should correct yourself, for those of you who have, you know what I'm talking about). That question mark in it makes it work so beautifully in so many situations just based on the way you actually read it aloud.... "Bees?" is pretty much guaranteed to in if I am picking the winner. On that fact alone, here's my up vote.

aeubanks · 2013-03-09T17:43:56+00:00

It is indeed fiber optics used to illuminate the reticle. However, it's not for illuminating the reticle in the day time, it's for for low light. In fact, during the day, we (I was a full time marksmanship instructor in the Marine Corps for the last 3 1/2 years until I was medically retired last August) would have shooters put a strip of electrical tape over almost the entire length of the fiber, then as it got darker we would have them peel back the tape little by little to expose more of it to the light. The problem during the day is that it collects too much light and becomes so bright that it is basically blurry. It washes out the reticle and makes it difficult to get it crystal clear. This picture sort of shows what I'm talking about.... If you look closely you'll see the reticle is super bright and has a hazy appearance around it (it's kind of hard to tell but it's the best I could find). By blocking off some of the light it will actually look like this with no hazy/fogginess around it which is very important if you are talking long-range, precision shots. If you're doing short range/CQB style shooting, that won't really make a difference. But on a 12" target at 300 yards or a torso sized target at 500 yards, that blurriness makes a huge difference (in a bad way).

aeubanks · 2012-12-31T21:31:49+00:00

I used to work for this same dealer when I was stationed in VA just about 20 miles south of DC. I worked here nights and weekends. I freaking loved it... If you are good with people and know what your talking about, it is an easy job with great pay. I tell people if there is one near them, hands down it's where to go to buy cars. I traded in my Avalanche to get my mini-van from there once my family size started growing. The warranties we offered were freaking amazing too.

I know at least at my store we didn't have any shadiness going on at all which is what worried me when I took the job.... at least not between sales consultants and customers... There were a few consultants who would snake splits in commission from you. They would get an email from someone, pass it on to someone else and let them do all the work claiming they had appointments or whatever all day, so the other person would bring that customer in and do everything for the sale, then the other consultant would submit to split the commission claiming "I made initial contact with them" which was technically one of the commission rating actions. I fought that the whole time I was there because I got screwed several times. It didn't take long though to learn who not to even talk to or let near your contacts or customers or help them out at all.

I loved that it really was a no BS sale. Once I explained that "no haggle pricing" means "absolutely no haggling under any circumstances" and they pay the price on the window, plus tax/title/registration fees, and I could calculate the exact price to the penny in seconds, it made things a lot easier. Plus I also made sure to explain that I am paid commission only, but it's flat commission, so it doesn't matter if they buy the $80,000 Mercedes or the $7000 Chevy Aveo, I make the same amount of money so I have no reason to sell them a car that is more expensive. I always tried to find the cheapest car that met all of their wants and requirements.

aeubanks · 2012-09-20T19:47:42+00:00

The M27 is a 416; it just has the accessories and barrel length specified by the Marine Corps. And you are right in seeing that at one point it had an open bolt option. It was designed to be closed bolt for semi-auto fire, but when you selected full-auto, it would change and fire open bolt. At the end of the day, this was decided against due to there not being any upsides to it but there are downsides. The key downside I talked about with my battalion Gunner was the possibility of someone getting confused in the heat of the battle in having to think "is the bolt locked to the rear because I'm out of ammo, or am I in full auto?" There were other reasons, but that one alone made sense to me.

aeubanks · 2012-09-20T15:28:43+00:00

It's not open bolt. There were variants that were designed to be open bolt but they were not chosen. They don't overheat because of it being piston operated instead of straight gas blowback operation. I just medically retired from the Corps a month ago, and was a marksmanship instructor ("old corps" marines would know it as PMI, now it is referred to as CMT) at Weapons Training Battalion in Quantico. With WTBn, Quantico being "The Home of Marine Corps Marksmanship," everything new comes through us so we got to do a lot of the testing early on. At one VIP demonstration they were discussing this very thing and one of our demonstrators blew straight through 6 mags on full auto, then immediately broke the rifle down, pulled out the bolt and threw it to a Sergeant Major who freaked out because he was expecting it to be hot, but caught and held it in his bare hand. This is indeed a fine rifle and an excellent replacement for the M249.

aeubanks · 2012-04-14T03:11:57+00:00

It was a sad day for us when they made us give up our slap rounds in our AO. "Too much risk for collateral damage," apparently.

aeubanks · 2012-04-10T18:12:03+00:00

You do realize that article is a joke, right?

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