Question for the statisticians...

Sonarrat said:

Has there ever been another instance of an Italian winning the Giro
riding for a foreign team, with no Italian teammates at all? I can't
think of any other situation that even comes close..

-Sonarrat.

Anquetil, Hinault, Pollentier, Hampsten, Fignon, Indurain ...

dv

dv said:

Sonarrat said:

Has there ever been another instance of an Italian winning the Giro
riding for a foreign team, with no Italian teammates at all? I can't
think of any other situation that even comes close..

-Sonarrat.

Anquetil, Hinault, Pollentier, Hampsten, Fignon, Indurain ...

dv

You misread me. None of those are Italian, several of them had teams of
their own nationalities, and all of them had teammates of their
nationality. Savoldelli was on an American team, with no other Italians
and he won his home tour. That would be like Virenque winning the Tour
de France riding for Euskaltel-Euskadi.

-Sonarrat.

Sonarrat said:

dv said:

Sonarrat said:

Has there ever been another instance of an Italian winning the Giro
riding for a foreign team, with no Italian teammates at all? I can't
think of any other situation that even comes close..

-Sonarrat.

Anquetil, Hinault, Pollentier, Hampsten, Fignon, Indurain ...

dv

You misread me. None of those are Italian, several of them had teams of
their own nationalities, and all of them had teammates of their
nationality. Savoldelli was on an American team, with no other Italians
and he won his home tour. That would be like Virenque winning the Tour
de France riding for Euskaltel-Euskadi.

-Sonarrat.

oups! you're right. I stop drinking Pastis ...
dv

Sonarrat said:

Has there ever been another instance of an Italian winning the Giro
riding for a foreign team, with no Italian teammates at all? I can't
think of any other situation that even comes close..

Why would the answer require a statistician?

keynes' old slave said:

Why would the answer require a statistician?

My brother was once in a meeting when the speaker asked if there were any
electrical engineers present. Several people (including my brother) raised
their hands and the speaker asked, "Could one of you please turn off the
lights?"

keynes' old slave said:

Quoted message said:

Why would the answer require a statistician?

Robert Chung said:

My brother was once in a meeting when the speaker asked if there were any
electrical engineers present. Several people (including my brother) raised
their hands and the speaker asked, "Could one of you please turn off the
lights?"

Just as well he didn't ask them to change the light bulb.

Robert Chung said:

keynes' old slave said:

Why would the answer require a statistician?

My brother was once in a meeting when the speaker asked if there were any
electrical engineers present. Several people (including my brother) raised
their hands and the speaker asked, "Could one of you please turn off the
lights?"

Oh, this has to be incorrect -- EE's don't switch the lights on and
off. I know from my stint at TI that an EE's job is to dig holes and
fill them back in until the incompetant managers "think" of a "new" way
to waste the shareholder's money. At least that's the way it was in
WLAN-Broadband.

Somebody is lying.

keynes' old slave said:

Somebody is lying.

Hmmm. "Quoting letters of the fallen from the war in Iraq, President Bush
vowed Monday [at Arlington National Cemetery]: 'We must honor them by
completing the mission for which they gave their lives -- by defeating the
terrorists.'"

W: Making Nixon look better every day.

keynes' old slave said:

Oh, this has to be incorrect -- EE's don't switch the lights on and
off. I know from my stint at TI that an EE's job is to dig holes and
fill them back in until the incompetant managers "think" of a "new" way
to waste the shareholder's money. At least that's the way it was in
WLAN-Broadband.

That's Communications Engineering, or these days, even Optical
Engineering. Unless the holes are for poles that carry copper, it
wouldn't be a sparkie's job.

More useful would be a clear idea of where the line between "Electronic"
and "Electrical" engineer lies. I'm of the electronic variety and
damned if I can make the little things go where I want them to....