CHRISTCHURCH SNOW

Tuesday, Monday, Sunday nights. On the corner of Montreal and Worcester St Christchurch. If it freezes 2night it could be hell out there.

The Outlaw

Brunette has been bragging about snow in Christchurch. That is like bragging about getting sand in your togs at Piha. What is really noteworthy is that there was snow falling on Grafton Bridge this afternoon.

Some in social media land have claimed this as "proof" that global warming is a crock. Well these netizens need to reflect on the outlaw outlier:

"Naive interpretation of statistics derived from data sets that include outliers may be misleading. For example, if one is calculating the average temperature of 10 objects in a room, and most are between 20 and 25 degrees Celsius, but an oven is at 175 °C, the median of the data may be 23 °C but the mean temperature will be between 35.5 and 40 °C. In this case, the median better reflects the temperature of a randomly sampled object than the mean; however, naively interpreting the mean as "a typical sample", equivalent to the median, is incorrect. As illustrated in this case, outliers may be indicative of data points that belong to a different population than the rest of the sample set." - Outlier

WANK ALERT

So this is the sign from a bunch of protesting lefties who think that RNZ is the only repository of intelligence? And we also note that 15,000 people are happy to sign up to another fatuous Facebook campaign to save RNZ but only 150 turn up to protest.. Duh.

Then while we are on the case of RNZ we were fascinated by this story in the Dom this morning.. Ex head of News Lyn Snowdon whos case is now the stuff of Employment Court legend has had the court accept her claim that there is a prima facie case to answer on her allegation that the books at RNZ were cooked.

Thats going to be a fun case to watch unfold...

We also hope that those RNZ Board members who are having difficulty with the current governments philosophy show some strength of character and resign. Its the good thing to do. We want to see the board populated with some visionaries. Soon.