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Hello All,
Having met Robin at a statistics talk here at Cal Poly several years
ago (I think I was the only one in the audience who knew anything
about the example he chose... college hockey), I can attest that he is
a he, for sure. And a nice guy at that!
:-)
Tony Buffa
RPI '64
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On Mar 27, 2009, at 3:29 PM, Mark Lewin wrote:
> This raises an interesting point. Since I seldom go to anything
> beyond NCAA
> Regionals, I've not personally met anyone on this list. For years,
> I've
> conjured up images of all who post here and I've always pictured
> Robin Lock
> as a male academic smoking a pipe and wearing a sports jacket with
> patches
> on the elbows.
>
> Now Nathan refers to Robin Lock as "she", which was a possibility I
> had
> never considered. However, after poking around on the SLU website,
> I've
> found that my imagined Robin Lock was much closer to reality than
> Nathan's.
> Unless Nathan's Robin doubles as "the bearded lady", Robin is most
> definitely a male of the species (or at least as close to male as a
> statistician can get).
>
> So I think I may just accept Robin's entry, but disqualify Nathan's.
>
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