I suggest that we take an unscientific vote on this matter, then table the topic until there is some more definitive news, which may never come, but then again might.
The wisdom of crowds suggests that our completely biased and boneheaded attitudes and beliefs--contradictory as the stew of opinions here is--might well cancel each other out in such a way as to provide a valid collective answer.
Then we can come back in a year, decade, or whenever, and some can yell, "I told you so!" from their respective berths in the nursing home, before, that is, speedily reattaching the oxygen mask and HGH drip.
What exactly makes her a hero? That is bizarre and downright idiotic. Is she a hero because she sponges off her current boyfriend and ex husbands to the tune of $100K for trainers, etc? Is she just a hero because she can swim fast in her 40s. I know many fast 40 year old women, many who earn their own money and raise more than one kid.
Surely she might be inspirational but hero, that's a bit dramatic.
There you have it... According to this vote, Dara is a hero!
Or to put politically incorrect (but grammatically correct), she's a heroine.
But .............. isn't that a drug (if without the "e")? ;)
She is amazing.
There you have it... According to this vote, Dara is a hero!
No. According to this vote, the majority think she is CLEAN. The poll doesn't ask if she is a "hero" just if we think is clean or dirty.
There is a difference in being a "hero" and being considered "clean" Dara is not a hero in my opinion, just a talented, hard working swimmer that should be given the benefit of the doubt.
Scene: The USMS Nursing Home
Date: 2048, the day of Fort's funeral
geochuck: "Where are we going, again?"
ande: "To The Fortress's funeral. She forgot that she can't run 20 miles a day any more, and fell in front of a car."
geochuck: "But why is it so far away?"
aquageek: "Because she's being buried in Lane 10 of the BU pool."
SwimStud: "The wall lane. She really grew to like that lane over the years, especially after she became a distance swimmer."
JMiller: "Hey, is that THE Rob Copeland over there? The former President of USMS?"
Jim Thornton: "No, that's one of the members of the 1992 Chinese women's swim team. See? She has more body hair than Rob does."
tomtopo: "Just type 'EVF + BU Pool' into Google. It will show you the most efficient way to get to the pool."
ande: "I thought that KaizenSwimmer disproved that whole EVF theory 30 years ago."
SwimStud: "It's aqua-noodle time. I'm not missing it just for a funeral."
What sort of stats courses do you teach?
Just a beginner stats course, a companion course for an analytical chemistry course (teaching them the stats they need to know to work up the data they will collect). I'm an analytical chemist by training, though I've branched out some since then. I use lots of multivariate stats in my research.
