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PaulK Member Posts: 17828 Joined: Member Rating: 2.3 |
quote: The first problem here is that TB Joshua counts personal and military flights as well as commercial flights. You should use more complete figures. The second is that air travel has dramatically increased over the last fifty years. An average over that period of time cannot be trusted to give us a figure that applies today.
quote: And excluding military crashes, and crashes of private planes... In contrast the full database for 2008 shows 59 crashes where crew or passengers died (and one where the people on the plane survived but 47 people on the ground were killed). More than one a week. The 2007 figures show 52 such crashes.
quote: The full database shows that there was no month in 2007 or 2008 without a fatal crash.
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PaulK Member Posts: 17828 Joined: Member Rating: 2.3 |
quote: In other words the fact that you used a figure which is too low, makes the prophecy "more amazing".
quote: You must be joking.
quote: Do the mathematics. 21199/5286 is just over 4. One crash every 4 days... Hardly a rare event.
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PaulK Member Posts: 17828 Joined: Member Rating: 2.3 |
quote: 5286 out of 21199 is a little over 1 in 4. That is no joke. And let us not forget that you were claiming that there would often be months between crashes ! And the prophecy wasn't as precise as you claim either. Joshua never said that there would be a crash on a number of specific days.
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PaulK Member Posts: 17828 Joined: Member Rating: 2.3 |
quote: You were the one who introduced the idea of trying to estimate the frequency of crashes. You are the one who came up with the figures. I'm just doing the math. And that math comes out as an average of one crash every 4 days.
quote: All of which is completely irrelevant. Look, I've got a maths degree. Basic probability theory is NOT a problem for me.
quote: That did not happen in 2007 or 2008 as I've already told you. It seems that you are the one ignoring previous posts - AND not bothering to actually check the figures. It hasn't happened so far in 2009 either.
quote: In other words I told the truth. TB Joshua never actually said that a crash WOULD happen on any specific day. He just gave a list of numbers and made it even vague by suggesting a crash on any day from the 17th to the end of the month (which is how it is interpreted). It was very, very likely that at least one. Even worse for you the only crashes listed on planecrashinfo.com for January 2009 occurred on the 4th and the 15th.If we grant that the crashes really did occur then the planecrashinfo.com database must be missing a lot of crashes because there are 6 missing from just the 17th to the 31st of January ! So the 1 crash every 4 days is an underestimate, because TB Joshua counts crashes that aren't recorded in the database. And as we have seen if it didn't happen in January, the prophecy could be extended to other months. TB Joshua didn't SAY January, so if the crashes didn't happen in January you would have said that he meant February or March or whenever... We can even go further and point out that the crash on the 27th was of a mail plane with no passengers and no fatalities. "...it’s either you miss your flight; it’s either something happens 17, 27, 28." ? - not on the 27th. Nobody needed to miss their flight then.
quote: Except that I wasn't lying as your quote demonstrates.
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PaulK Member Posts: 17828 Joined: Member Rating: 2.3 |
quote: No, it is irrelevant. If one crash happens every 4 days we should expect to see several in the 17th to 31st January. Because there are so many flights run by so many different organisations with so many different crews we can take them as being largely statistically independent. And the figures agree - there is no month without a crash from 2007, 2008 or 2009.
quote: This year IS 2009, so you are just repeating what I told you. Despite your opinion that there must be many months without crashes there has not been one in 2007, 2008 or 2009. And as we have seen the numbers in planecrashinfo.com do NOT include all the crashes that occur.
quote: Again, I am not lying. He never explicitly said that a crash would happen on any of those days.
quote: Isn't it amazing how the truth makes you so angry.
quote: He didn't explicitly say which month. The only reason you say he meant January is because you found enough crashes. If there hadn't been you would be just as adamant that he meant some other month, You've already demonstrated that.
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PaulK Member Posts: 17828 Joined: Member Rating: 2.3 |
quote: As I have pointed out, the prophecy was not that specific. (And there were no fatal crashes on the 27th anyway).
quote: And if they are less careful etc etc. there will be more crashes. It IS irrelevant,
quote: As has been shown they are not rare at all. On average 1 in 4 days will see a crash according to the planecrashinfo.com database which includes NONE of the crashes cited as "proof" of the prophecy. So they are far more common than even the common "1 in 4" figure suggests.
quote: And on the 27th that wasn't true.
quote: Withotu an accurate figure for plane crashes it seems unlikely. If we assume (conservatively ) that there are 3 times as many crashes as planecrashinfo.com records then there will be a crash on most days. The odds of success are not bad, even without the possiblity of moving the goalposts.
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PaulK Member Posts: 17828 Joined: Member Rating: 2.3 |
quote: No, it's just that you don't like the truth
quote: You SHOULD look and see how vague it is.
quote: It is irrelevant because you have utterly failed to show anything that would make it relevant.
quote: For the first point, that is what we EXPECT to see if the distribution is random.On the second your calculations gave results that are clearly at odds with reality. As you have agreed there were no months without an accident in 2007, 2008 or for so far as we have figures, 2009. So why claim that your meaningless calculations showed anything, other than the fact that you don't understand what you are talking about ? quote: According to your own Message 78 there were no fatalities, and as a cargo plane it would not have carried passengers anyway. So nobody needed to miss their flight to survive. I spoke the truth.
quote: There were TWO crashes on the 15th in the planecrashinfo.com database - which shows how much you care about the accuracy of your claims. Even worse, your own report of the prophecy's "success" includes two more crashes on the 29th as evidence for the prophecy. And now you are claiming that there were NO crashes on the 29th - as evidence for the prophecy. Which just demonstrates what I said - the prophecy is simply not as specific as you try to pretend it is. You don't know that there were no crashes on the 16th January or on the 1st February any more than you "know" that there weren't any on the 15th or 29th. Not knowing about crashes - even crashes that you yourself reported - isn't much of a miracle.
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PaulK Member Posts: 17828 Joined: Member Rating: 2.3 |
quote: Which is why you claimed that there were no crashes on the 29th January EVEN THOUGH YOU HAD ALREADY CITED TWO CRASHES on that date.
quote: The fact - as I have said - is that the statement is hugely open to interpretation. If there had been no crashes on one of those days it would have been ignored (and the fact that one of the days did not have a crash which fully fitted the description was and is ignored). There was no explicit statement about the month, so if January had not fitted then February, March or even a later month could have been said to have been the month meant (as you have already shown).
quote: Let us note that your questions admit that Joshua did NOT state which month he was referring to, The answers are yes except for 3b - no crash was reported for the 31st. Of course we can ask you why the crashes on the 15th were not mentioned (even though more people died in the Afghan crash than any of those "predicted" and the American crash involved a large passenger jet - instead of a helicopter, private plane or a cargo flight).
quote: Just as it is possible for "prophecy" fans to decided that the month meant was whichever month fits the prediction best.
quote: I never said any such thing. The problem is relating this to the discussion (which you haven't done) AND it needs to be checked againt the actual figures (which you CERTAINLY haven't done).
quote: Another demonstration of how much you care about the truth. Your calculations show no such thing. The actual figures - AS YOU KNOW - say otherwise. And you accuse me of lying ?
quote: pbs.org must be counting even fewer crashes than planecrashinfo.org - because planecrashinfo.org shows crashes every month for 2007, 2008 and all of 2009 up to now. As you know. (Likely they exclude military, private and cargo flights for a start).
quote: According to your own figures - which are probably a serious underestimate - the sort of crashes TB Joshua counts - happen quite frequently, with a mean of 1 per 4 days by the figures you gave.
quote: You miss the point - the crew would find it rather harder to miss the flight (and they would have to be replaced) - and NOBODY DIED.
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PaulK Member Posts: 17828 Joined: Member Rating: 2.3 |
quote: No, it is an absolutely true statement. And you completely miss the point of my argument. I say that if January had not worked out TB Joshua's supporters would go on to antoher month. And we know that because that is exactly the sort of argument you have already made in another case.
quote: Wrong. The vagueness is an objective fact. It does not go away just because January happened to work out (ans as we have seen, it worked out less well than you have tried to claim).
quote: THe fact that it is not part of the prophect IS THE PROBLEM. It should have been. The crashes were as serious as those you claim as successes, thye happened aftwer the "prophecy" was given. And do not forget that you tried to claim that there were NO crahes on the 15th, even though I had already mentioned them here and they are easily found on planecrashinfo.com.
quote: If it was releavant you could actually explain HOW it is relevant - something you have not yet done. Or more honestly you could admit that I was right, and that it was not relevant.
quote: Nothing you have said suggests that it has any relevance to the point we are discussing. Either explain how this figure actually affects the crash statistics (using REAL statistics, not your guesses) or admit that YOU were wrong.
quote: The answer is implicit.
quote: 25% us quite common. And now we know that the REAL figure is significantly higher.
quote: Simple counts tell you NOTHING about the distribution. Your whole argument is just a guess. However, we already know that there are no months without crashes in 2007, 2008 or (so far) in 2009. All you are demonstrating is that you do NOT care about the truth.
quote: Which is meaningless unless you take into account the number of flights and the number of passengers carried.
quote: Since the site you referred to earlier - planecrashinfo.com - strongly contradicts this, something is wrong. It is pretty clear that Nova was restricting the figures to commercial passenger flights (which includes exactly NONE of the "successes" - there was one military helicopter and all the rest were light aircraft). So at the very least it is the wrong figure to use.
quote: Wrong. What does if it is going to take your life mean, if it does not refer to deaths ? Why bother to mention a flight with no fatalities while ignoring a flight with 13 deaths ?
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PaulK Member Posts: 17828 Joined: Member Rating: 2.3 |
Here are two simple questions:
1) If TB Joshua's prophecies are always fulfilled - and often quickly, why refuse to put it to a real test, using predictions that have not yet come true ? 2) Why is TB Joshua "good" at predicting small, common, crashes (which likely affect nobody in his audience) but does not seem to have a record for predicting the big crashes where many people die ? For instance, if we look at planecrashinco.com's list of the 100 worst crashes and look at just those that ocurred in 2009 we have: June 1 2009: Air France 228 dead.June 30 2009: Yemenia 152 dead July 15 2009: Caspian Air 168 dead And we don't have a prediction for any of these ?
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PaulK Member Posts: 17828 Joined: Member Rating: 2.3 |
quote: In other words you only know of claimed successes after the fact.
quote: Don't you watch them ? And if he only delivers a few prophecies a year as you have just suggested, watching a service on the off-chance seems to be a bit of a waste of time.
quote: As far as I know, I can't, and from the evidence seen it is very rare that anyone watching is "at the heart" of one of his "prophecies".
quote: No, it is not at all like that. Unless you are saying that TB Joshua lived thousands of years ago. If he is predicting aircraft crashes in 2009 you have to ask why he only "hit" a few of the smallest ones in that year (not even the largest in the month of January) - and missed the bigger ones.
quote: I didn't. That is why "good" was placed in quote marks. What you are missing is that this is the exactly the pattern we would expect to see if he was a fake.
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PaulK Member Posts: 17828 Joined: Member Rating: 2.3 |
In other words the "desperate" measure of showing the necessity of seeing what was said BEFORE the event. And so far your only attempt to do so is to tell us to buy DVDs (which may well be edited after the event), watch TV channels we can't see (after telling us that we are unlikely to see an actual prediction!) or to refer to some skeptical oversight which - for all we can tell - does not even exist - you certainly have provided no evidence that it does.
I suppose that your attempts to manipulate and misrepresent the statistics of air crashes - up to the extent of denying actual statistics in favour of completely bogus "calculations" DON'T count as desparate in your eyes ? Because I happen to think that making a valid point is less of a sign of desparation than a glaring denial of reality is!
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PaulK Member Posts: 17828 Joined: Member Rating: 2.3 |
quote: In your FIRST use of planecrashinfo.com you attempted to restrict the data to only commercial flights - despite the fact that the claims of success mainly referred to private planes. Using the full number saw a four-fold increase. And that is just one example there are plenty more.
quote: Only as an example of complete nonsense.
quote: In other words I "ignore statistics" by pointing out the fact that the REAL statistics contradict your "calculations". The fact is that YOU ignore all the data on the distribution of crashes - and come to conclusions directly contradicted by that data.
quote: And here you are doing exactly what you said that you didn't do - misrepresenting the figures. The figure we need to find out is the chance of a particular day having the sort of air crash that TB Joshua counts. The proportion of big commercial flights that crash is THE WRONG FIGURE because there are very many such flights every day and because TB Joshua includes many other flights. The chance of a particular passenger being killed in an air crash is the wrong figure (for the same reasons, and because there are often survivors). The number of commercial passenger flights that crash in a year is wrong, too for reasons I have already given. And the alternative calculation - dividing the number of crashes by the number of days is one that YOU introduced. It isn't great, but it is better than your alternatives. And as soon as the result was shown to be one that you didn't like you started to tell people to ignore it - not because you had anything better.
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PaulK Member Posts: 17828 Joined: Member Rating: 2.3 |
quote: Your "many months without a crash" was "cooked up". It was not an actual figure and we know that because the actual figures contradict you.
quote: It is a very significant amount. It is the ratio that is important - not the difference. Therefore the fact that the number increased by a factor of 4 is more important than the change in the absolute numbers.
quote: But still factually correct. Your "calculations" were complete nonsense.
quote: The actual figure of at least 1 crash every month for 2007, 2008 and 2009 is a real statistic. Your assertion that many months must go by without a crash is NOT a real statistic.
quote: They aren't made up - but they are certainly not relevant.
quote: Actually you claimed that there would be MANY months without crashes. And you kept on claiming it, even after it was pointed out that it wasn't true - ignoring the real statistics.
quote: By which you mean that I am being honest.
quote: All of which doesn't change the fact that your measure of rarity is the WRONG FIGURE. TB Joshua didn't pick out an individual person and say that he or she would die in a plane crash. If we use the RIGHT figure - days including at least one air crash - including helicopters - they aren't so rare at all. Again you are simply trying to use the wrong figure to make TB Joshua look better than he is. And you are being absolutely obviosu about it.
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PaulK Member Posts: 17828 Joined: Member Rating: 2.3 |
quote: No, you didn't. You MISREPRESENTED a website as agreeing with you, but that is not the same thing.
quote: The only way to work out that aviation accidents are rare compared with the numebr of days is to CONSDIER THE RATIO. A factor of four difference means that accidents are FOUR TIMES MORE COMMON.
quote: That is an outright falsehood. They are not, and cannot be relevant because TB Joshua never predicted that a perticular person would be killed in a plane crash. You need the probability of the ACTUAL predictions coming true, allowing all the flexibility of interpretation used to declare a success.
quote: That is another outright falsehood. Your figures were entirely consistent with an accident happening every fourth (or occasionally fifth) day. The only way to work out the distribution is to look at the data relevant to the distribution. And you not only ignored that when working out your conclusion - you went on ignorin them even after they were pointed out.
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