On 5/30/06, Ray Saintonge saintonge@telus.net wrote:
You extrapolated the frequency of the name "Ng" in the Melbourne directory as an argument to prove the much broader hypothesis that phone books are not valid sources. That name was the straw man. Choosing a much rarer name may have resulted in the quite different conclusion that a phone book is _sometimes_ a valid source. If among all those Ngs there is only one Egg Foo Ng it might still be useful there. And we haven't even mentioned the usefulness of the yellow pages in establishing the existence of a business over a time frame.
I did what?
I was asked for an example of a phone book being a reliable source for a claim.
I gave one.
Now you're just being nasty.
Steve