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what I'm saying is that a representative sample of the entire population darius_sedai Send a noteboard - 06/02/2011 06:40:51 PM
is not reflected in the Tower ... they are overrepresented by women of certain social classes which immediately eliminates a representative sample. I'm illustrating to you that the Tower has an inverted social strata ... proportionately there should be dramatically more women who come from squalid little villages or who's parents were extremely poor (as the majority of the population of the mainland is) ... in the Tower you see the % of women from higher social status than in the general population ... thus invalidating the possibility that it is a truly representative sample. It's closer to a reversed social strata than a true one.

3 Queens/Princesses (Kiruna, Moiraine, Elayne), Morgase (High Seat and later Queen), Elaida was a minor noble, there was one of the Kin that was a Noble as well, Daigain was a minor noble ... I'm sure if I dug into the text I could find several more without too much work. Leane and Beonin were both from families of great means as was Sieane.

Then let's talk about the fact that even women like Siuan who grew up in a city skew things further .... the VAST majority of the population lives outside of cities in this society ... not so with AS ... especially since the rural folk have such a negative view of AS.

Oh and we've got Amadicia, who just kills any poor woman who can channel and Tear where Channeling is anathema enough to stem the number of women (sparkers aside) from that nation that would even consider going to TV to train ... if she failed she would probably never be welcome home.

too many exclusions to use the Tower as anything even coming close to "representative". A research study would laugh.

Point is, Moiraine et al could easily be around a 50 on the Bell Curve, there are just a TON of women out there that the Tower hasn't recruited and thus the Tower sample is skewing the results of a Bell Curve distribution. And note how many WF and WO we see that are in the general range of Sheriam or higher strength ... odds are these societies find and train only the Sparkers or we'd be seeing a LOT more WF and WO in general ... if 400 WO was way too many for the Shaido to have in the entire clan of at least 100k people then we know they are not grabbing up latent women, or they'd have like 5000 WO.

If Egwene's plans move forward for the next few hundred years then the Tower will likely start becoming a true sample.
Domani Drag Queen in the White Tower ... Aran'gar watch out!
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Proof that Asmodean's effective One Power strength is greater than Moghedien's... - 03/02/2011 03:22:42 PM 2215 Views
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Why do you deliberately misquote the text? - 03/02/2011 04:12:50 PM 1166 Views
You're deliberately being obtuse... as usual... - 03/02/2011 10:07:09 PM 1097 Views
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Unbiased view... - 04/02/2011 01:46:40 AM 1067 Views
The WoT Board in a nutshell. *NM* - 04/02/2011 02:34:32 AM 526 Views
Yeah, thats unbiased... *NM* - 04/02/2011 05:23:17 PM 514 Views
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Fair comment, but my question then is: - 04/02/2011 11:26:25 AM 929 Views
I think the WO and Moiraine also Force Egwene as they know what's coming and need her - 04/02/2011 03:55:46 PM 948 Views
It is specifically stated that Egwene was forced by the rigours of the damane training... - 04/02/2011 05:15:20 PM 931 Views
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The direct quotes contradict you... - 04/02/2011 06:23:03 PM 978 Views
actually the quote substantiates that Egwene is only slightly stronger than Moiraine in TSR - 04/02/2011 07:51:10 PM 992 Views
here ya go they were all Forced - 04/02/2011 07:59:40 PM 861 Views
Nope... - 04/02/2011 08:23:00 PM 950 Views
I think you may have misused the term - RJ meant 'effective' to mean something a bit different. - 03/02/2011 04:40:41 PM 1127 Views
Re: I think you are mistaking what RJ meant effective to mean. - 03/02/2011 05:30:15 PM 1040 Views
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Re: I think you are mistaking what RJ meant effective to mean. - 03/02/2011 07:06:50 PM 982 Views
Re: I think you are mistaking what RJ meant effective to mean. - 03/02/2011 07:17:25 PM 986 Views
We still don't know who is effectively stronger, and not sure if Asmo was equal to Rand by the end. - 03/02/2011 06:58:14 PM 798 Views
See my post above, I would say Asmo is Weaker than Moggy... *NM* - 03/02/2011 07:10:07 PM 532 Views
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My impression of your view, in general, is that... - 03/02/2011 07:33:37 PM 884 Views
How... - 03/02/2011 10:15:34 PM 848 Views
If Nynaeve could do to Egwene and Elayne what Rand did to them, then I rest my case... - 03/02/2011 10:36:46 PM 1003 Views
Re: If Nynaeve could do to Egwene and Elayne what Rand did to them, then I rest my case... - 03/02/2011 10:50:57 PM 955 Views
Got you now... - 03/02/2011 11:32:49 PM 929 Views
You're clearly delusional... - 04/02/2011 12:59:26 AM 934 Views
You sound ridiculous - 04/02/2011 02:05:18 AM 926 Views
Re: You sound ridiculous - 04/02/2011 02:23:50 AM 1017 Views
Ok... - 04/02/2011 04:13:34 PM 878 Views
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They're very close now... - 04/02/2011 05:46:48 PM 1021 Views
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It is... - 04/02/2011 06:05:05 PM 857 Views
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Yup... - 04/02/2011 08:20:33 PM 864 Views
Semirhage hated Lanfear, but dared not act against her strength... - 04/02/2011 08:29:24 PM 1285 Views
yet Graendal showed a lot of respect for Semirhage ... even assumed she was the most - 04/02/2011 08:53:05 PM 952 Views
Graendal on Semirhage and Demandred... - 04/02/2011 09:23:50 PM 1217 Views
No - 04/02/2011 11:10:00 PM 991 Views
CLAPS *NM* - 05/02/2011 05:15:21 AM 564 Views
We will just have to disagree on this one... - 05/02/2011 06:57:36 AM 885 Views
Indeed - 05/02/2011 07:38:10 AM 862 Views
I agree with you ... especially abou the perpective issue - 05/02/2011 03:00:58 PM 971 Views
I agree with you here - 04/02/2011 08:19:35 PM 881 Views
I don't think that's true.. - 04/02/2011 08:21:38 PM 821 Views
Considering that Asmodean and Rand were using a sa'angreal... - 04/02/2011 04:55:03 AM 1082 Views
I think this is a no brainer - 04/02/2011 08:22:00 AM 1033 Views
The nice fact which is proven is the magnitude of the gap between Moghedien and Semirhage... - 04/02/2011 11:32:00 AM 872 Views
Nynaeve could be at 90% or 80% when she faced Moghedien we have no way of measuring that - 04/02/2011 08:42:03 PM 867 Views
Disagree... - 04/02/2011 08:51:55 PM 940 Views
spin it all you like... I'm tired of this arument and your creative quoting. - 04/02/2011 08:56:14 PM 854 Views
The creative quoter is Fionwe, not me. You quote correctly, but your interpretations are way off... - 04/02/2011 09:05:43 PM 850 Views
Nynaeve has grown in strength, but she started nearly as strong as Moiraine! - 05/02/2011 05:35:05 AM 832 Views
Starting out at Moiraine's strength meant starting out at barely 30% of her full potential... - 05/02/2011 07:05:46 AM 893 Views
Nynaeve's strength - 05/02/2011 07:49:07 AM 944 Views
Agree, Egwene has never been as strong as Nynaeve at any stage. *NM* - 05/02/2011 03:03:25 PM 619 Views
I disagree that Moiraine is 30% of Nynaeve. Much closer to 50% of Nynaeve. EDIT - 05/02/2011 03:02:06 PM 1023 Views
Minor quibbles aside... - 05/02/2011 04:05:30 PM 1023 Views
Agreed, the exact numbers are arbitrary, I place Egwene a tad higher than you ... EDIT - 05/02/2011 04:30:00 PM 835 Views
Re: Agreed, the exact numbers are arbitrary, I place Egwene a tad higher than you ... EDIT - 05/02/2011 06:09:41 PM 973 Views
shrugs - 05/02/2011 06:46:02 PM 897 Views
Re: shrugs - 05/02/2011 08:03:37 PM 900 Views
I don't recall the Merise quote you are refering too and they have not been together in the series - 05/02/2011 09:20:56 PM 824 Views
I'm sorry, I meant the glossary entry... - 05/02/2011 10:29:46 PM 878 Views
Thanks for clarifying - 05/02/2011 11:12:19 PM 794 Views
Re: Thanks for clarifying - 06/02/2011 12:42:51 AM 856 Views
fair enough ... I can agree to Cadsuane and Bode both being 70 with Egwene and co at 80 *NM* - 06/02/2011 04:29:49 AM 478 Views
Cool! *NM* - 06/02/2011 04:18:52 PM 520 Views
Sorry, but here your entire Bell Curve goes up in smoke... - 06/02/2011 01:13:15 PM 812 Views
In fact, Moiraine is even STRONGER than I postulated in the above post... - 06/02/2011 01:22:11 PM 1205 Views
well... - 06/02/2011 02:11:02 PM 949 Views
Only a separate Bell Curve for the Age of Legends - when the average strength was higher - will work - 06/02/2011 03:29:49 PM 869 Views
Or, you know, the Aes Sedai aren't a representative sample... *NM* - 06/02/2011 04:19:22 PM 625 Views
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Yup. - 06/02/2011 05:30:54 PM 842 Views
Trivial - 06/02/2011 06:10:55 PM 863 Views
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Read these facts slowly, maybe you will grasp the implication then... - 06/02/2011 04:41:02 PM 914 Views
you are missing the fact that women like Sharina have no interest in the Tower - 06/02/2011 05:05:10 PM 944 Views
You equate random exclusions with the deliberate block exclusion of 37.5% weakest women... - 06/02/2011 05:41:47 PM 866 Views
wrong - 06/02/2011 06:08:20 PM 972 Views
That is weak logic in the extreme... - 06/02/2011 06:16:46 PM 849 Views
what I'm saying is that a representative sample of the entire population - 06/02/2011 06:40:51 PM 907 Views
Yes. *NM* - 06/02/2011 06:47:59 PM 574 Views
Yes. *NM* - 06/02/2011 06:48:00 PM 498 Views
But you don't prove that the undiscovered women are stronger. They may well be weaker... - 06/02/2011 07:26:27 PM 749 Views
Amys is far from the strongest WO! - 06/02/2011 07:37:14 PM 1057 Views
Explain the 1000 women they found in Murandy then... - 06/02/2011 06:26:46 PM 854 Views
And a 1000 years ago... - 06/02/2011 06:33:29 PM 874 Views
The only implication I grasped is that you don't grasp math... - 06/02/2011 06:21:12 PM 967 Views
Circular reasoning... - 06/02/2011 07:03:53 PM 913 Views
Agreed. - 04/02/2011 04:32:05 PM 953 Views
Agree. *NM* - 04/02/2011 05:49:05 PM 582 Views
agreed *NM* - 04/02/2011 08:27:22 PM 600 Views

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