[geeks] Ok I am ready to kill this Fu**ing linux box

Kurt Huhn kurt at k-huhn.com
Fri May 24 12:24:55 CDT 2002


> What's usually happening "in real life" is that they're not skewing the
> statistics, but that they're skewing the question that's being asked.
> The science of statistics is in crunching the numbers.  The art - which
> is more interesting to me - is in picking a valid question to ask.
> 

Yes, that's it - I was confusing the act of calculation with the act of
gathering information.  Either way, I rarely pay attention to
statistical info unless I'm sure of the method used to arrive at the
analytical result...
-- 
Kurt
kurt at k-huhn.com



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