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YOUR avg. clutch size 08'

Why not just follow the rules of rounding that have been in mathematics for hundreds (thousands?) of years? As we should already know, you always round to the even integer when you have a "point five." Duh! 16.5 rounds to 16, but 17.5 rounds to 18. That way, there is no bias towards ALWAYS rounding
up when you hit a number that is exactly halfway between two integers.
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But of course, Anyone is more than welcome to use the " hundreds/thousands year old mathematics rounding rule" if they so choose, this isn't rocket science after all...( or is it ?) :laugh01:
For myself I prefer the K.I.S.S. rule ( I apologize as I am unfamiliar with it's date of origin):bang: it is more appropriate and in sync with my sub-par intellectual abilities:):):)
 
rocket science

i suppose it could qualify as rocket science if you were working out how breeding snakes to send to a certain (or uncertain) planet to populate it in a set length of time by rocket:laugh01:

however i expect this is unlikly:crazy02:

and i have not had any clutches this year so cant answer the question:bang:
sorry
 
Not rocket science? Ha! let me quote one of the great Americans that convinced so many people that space travel WAS possible that public pressure got us into space:

"Anyone who cannot cope with mathematics is not fully human. At best he
is a tolerable subhuman who has learned to wear shoes, bathe and not
make messes in the house." -- Lazarus Long, "Time Enough for Love", (Robert
A. Heinlein)

Not rocket science? I say "Ha!" to you again. I guess you are now going to claim that a single clutch size (sample size of 1) still makes a statistically valid average. Hmmmmm, I want to see you divide by zero to get the standard error.

(If anyone doesn't get that I'm jesting here - not about the stadnard error - you really can't determine that - in all those posts, then I say 'Ha-squared' and 'Nee!-Nee!-Nee!' to you!)
 
"Anyone who cannot cope with mathematics is not fully human. At best he
is a tolerable subhuman who has learned to wear shoes, bathe and not
make messes in the house." -- Lazarus Long, "Time Enough for Love", (Robert
A. Heinlein)
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Where on Earth did you find this???
This describes me so well I'm using it as the epitaph on my gravestone. I mean come on I wear shoes...bathe...Uhmmm still working on the " messes in the house part" :laugh01: It's all about "progress not perfection" B&B
 
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Anybody else afraid that if they reply to this thread they will jinx their luck? I have 2 clutches on the ground, but as for numbers - well they are not good eggs until a good healthy pippy comes out!
 
With perhaps 1 clutch to go (if it ever does), I have 230.49.18.13 (that one clutch of 1 fertile and 19 slugs and the "2nd" clutch laid by my oldest female that was fertilized 3 months ago totally ruined my numbers).
 
Tim posted our numbers once, but we've had a couple more of the girls lay... so here's the updated numbers:

116.12.9.13

We still have another 5 females that haven't laid yet though, so the numbers will change again soon.
 
59 eggs
unknown slugs (I don't keep track of this)
from 5 clutches
with an average of 12 eggs

59.U.5.12

NOTE: I did not breed anywhere near all of my females this year
 
I am now at: 58.0.4.15, for first clutches...:cool:

UPDATE: One definitely infertile MOLDY MARSHMELLOW! Darn, my first bad egg/ slug this season/ ever...
This actually was not suprising.
I remember this one because when I candled all of them, even before the veins were really visible, it had a different hue than the rest, more of a yellowish rather than the pinkish-yellowish of the healthy eggs...
 
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UPDATE: One definitely infertile MOLDY MARSHMELLOW!:puke01: Darn, my first bad egg/ slug this season/ ever...
This actually was not suprising:
I remember this one because when I candled all of them, even before the veins were really visible, it had a different hue than the rest, more of a yellowish rather than the pinkish-yellowish of the healthy eggs...it's hue never changed from that color.
Has anyone else ever noticed this color difference between good vs. bad eggs?
 
I only have 2 females this year ready to lay eggs and the result is 20.5.2.8

Greets Tania
 
1st AND 2nd CLUTCHES

I am now at: 58.1.4.15, for first clutches...

today I have: 6.0.1.6, for SECOND clutches...
 
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