gbaji wrote:
Given that there is a direct correlation between the two, yes.
Except that there's not. Are you
that bad with math?
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We can debate causation, but you've already shown the correlation, didn't you?
Erm, no. I showed that the number of cloture votes have jack all to do with changes in the size of the majority. Again, are you really this bad at math or are you just delusional or what? You think a
drop in cloture votes when the size of a majority goes from 53 to 55 shows a direct correlation? You think a
drop in cloture votes when the majority goes from a tie to +1 shows a direct correlation? You think a doubling in cloture votes when the majority goes from +5 to +1 shows a direct correlation? Do you even know what any of those words mean?
Ah, you. So funny to listen to you talk about how Congress works. Hey, remember the time you told us all that a congressional committee can overturn existing laws?
Just because it's fun to graphically demonstrate how little Gbaji knows versus how much he claims to know (that'd be an amusing graph itself), I spent the two minutes on some graph-makin' site to plug in the senate majority size versus the number of cloture motions for each congress starting from the 100th.
Cloture motions are divided by ten so the first point at 4.3 represents 43 motions, etc. Majority size is the number of senators over 50 the majority party for that congress had*. I didn't track which party had the majority since that doesn't matter towards showing there is absolutely no "direct correlation" between majority size and cloture motions as Gbaji claims.
Hey, what do you know? Gbaji doesn't know sh
it about the Congress! Amazing how much fun you can have with two minutes on Chartpart.com
*That looks to be off by a few pixels but when using free graphing sites, I guess you get what you pay for. Edited, Mar 19th 2010 11:00pm by Jophiel