What is a "Landscape Shot"?

[Mike Buckley]

That's an Earthscape.

No, that's a planetscape.

[paintingwithlight]

Assuming that your experience is intended to prove the opposite of mine, Michael, mine has the greater statistical weight - both in time served and number of posts made there.

Just sayin'

As someone who gets paid to do stats I can tell you that "greater statistical weight" depends on how you define your metrics. I have not desire to derail this thread. You lamented the derision of DPR and I offered one anecdotal reason to explain my personal dislike of the forum. That is all.

Michael

[xpatUSA]

As someone who gets paid to do stats I can tell you that "greater statistical weight" depends on how you define your metrics.

Then clearly you need no further education on confidence level, sample size, population, etc.

I have not desire to derail this thread. You lamented the derision of DPR and I offered one anecdotal reason to explain my personal dislike of the forum. That is all.

Michael

Fine.

[DanK]

Medical Doctors and people with PhDs are both called "Doctor." A friend of mine made a keen observation when he asked a doctor "Are the you kind of doctor that fixes people or the kind that corrects people?"

A keen observation? Off topic, but as a matter of fact, many of the treatments medical doctors use were created by PhDs, or by the relatively few people who hold both degrees. Ditto, evaluating which are safe and effective--done in part by people with PhDs in fields like biostatistics. And there are the PhDs in fields like physics who are responsible for a lot of the electronics we all use routinely. Hmm. What about the chemists? Etc., etc.

[paintingwithlight]

A keen observation? Off topic, but as a matter of fact, many of the treatments medical doctors use were created by PhDs, or by the relatively few people who hold both degrees. Ditto, evaluating which are safe and effective--done in part by people with PhDs in fields like biostatistics. And there are the PhDs in fields like physics who are responsible for a lot of the electronics we all use routinely. Hmm. What about the chemists? Etc., etc.

I am a doctor (PhD) and while I agree with your observations I still think that my previous statement was humorous in that it captures an essential truth - I don't fix people, but I do correct people.

Michael

[DanK]

I am a doctor (PhD) and while I agree with your observations I still think that my previous statement was humorous in that it captures an essential truth - I don't fix people, but I do correct people.

Michael

I am too, and I proved you right: I corrected you

[paintingwithlight]

I am too, and I proved you right: I corrected you

You did not but you will feel very much at home on DPReview.

[DanK]

You did not but you will feel very much at home on DPReview.

Michael,

that was a joke, or an attempt at one. I had disagreed with you in an earlier post, which fit with your description of PhDs.

Dan

[Manfred M]

Time to close this thread down.

The last few comments seem to have no bearing on the original question and are not headed anywhere meaningful.