Wednesday, May 17, 2006

The beat goes on

It's all Bush's fault, would say Le Monde, yes?
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7 comments:

The Darkroom said...

>>Colasan told reporters that the gunman said he was carrying out the attack because of a February decision by the court that barred the promotion of a teacher who wore an Islamic-style headscarf outside of work.

while there is no doubt that bush bears responsiblity for much of the bloodshed in iraq, i am not sure Le Monde would see this turkish story similarly. Unless of course du-du-dubbyah had been secretely promoting a Chiraquien-style ban on headscarves.

5/17/2006 2:57 PM
Tecumseh said...

It's called antiaméricanisme primaire -- doesn't need logic to justify it. It's the raison d'etre for le Monde types...

5/17/2006 3:56 PM
The Darkroom said...

surely you aren't making this up and have the quote from Le Monde. You wouldn't want to be called antii-Monde primaire ?

5/17/2006 7:00 PM
Tecumseh said...

Well, I'm making this up, but I've seen enough stories along those lines from le Monde in the past 4-5 years (mostly supplied by JJ, I don't normally click on their site), to make an educated guess what the likes of Fottorino or Dhormes think. It's called inference.

5/17/2006 7:32 PM
The Darkroom said...

it's called extrapolation.

5/17/2006 9:31 PM
Tecumseh said...

Both inference and extrapolation can be useful. In this case -- trying to predict (with >95% confidence) what le Monde would say when it comes to an incident like this one -- both methods lead to the same conclusion. It''s a matter of inductive reasoning.

5/17/2006 9:52 PM
The Darkroom said...

i remember my numerical analysis days well, particularly the accuracy of predictions resulting from extrapolation.

5/17/2006 10:01 PM

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