Ron's Brain

I... uh.. don't use the chat thing because it hasn't worked for me in days.

O RLY?

And I, of course, have no idea what you're talking about. (Nor can I say I REALLY want to....) But I AM a faithful reader, and I contribute regularly to the comics, and even respond to some of your posts, so I am not without SOME socially redeeming characteristics.

I haven't used the chat because no one has been in it.

They're just hiding from you. Just say "hello" over and over until someone responds.

[13:04:22] : Derf has entered.
[13:10:38] : Derf has left.

[13:11:25] : Derf has entered.
[13:11:30] : Derf has left.

There were... five Rontourarians in the chat room at those times.

We saw you.

BUSTED!!!

That much is true. However everyone had these messages saying they weren't there. They were on the oder of me_away and another exciting meeting.

We just do that to scare away the telemarketers and Jehovah's Witnesses.

Apparently it works on catholics to.

Invalid conclusion. Your sample size is too small and there is no control experiment.

My control group was you people. You aren't catholic and weren't scared away. Therefore my hypothesis is proven to be correct.

You need a control group where we don't attempt to scare away people and introduce Catholics to ensure that Catholics aren't naturally inclined to be scared away from chat rooms.

I'm going to go with Ron on this one.. for any study to be remotely statstically significant, you have to have at least 30 people... and well.. we all know how many people really frequent this site.

Yes but in this environment 6 people would be significant if the entire population was considered to be the viewers of this site.

Regardless of the population of the userbase, 6 would still not be significant statistically. Besides in your hypthosis you effectively included all Catholics, not just the ones using this site.