[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
More information about the geeks
mailing list