Can you resend this link please? Thanks
On Tue, Apr 16, 2013 at 10:33 PM, Jim Lemon <j...@bitwrit.com.au> wrote: > On 04/17/2013 03:25 AM, Sarah Goslee wrote: > >> ... >> Ouch. >> >> (Note: I know nothing about the site, the author of the article, or >> the study in question. I was pointed to it by someone else. But if >> true: highly problematic.) >> >> Sarah >> >> There seem to be three major problems described here, and only one is > marginally related to Excel (and similar spreadsheets). Cherry picking data > is all too common. Almost anyone who reviews papers for publication will > have encountered it, and there are excellent books describing examples that > have had great influence on public policy. > > Similarly, applying obscure and sometimes inappropriate statistical > methods that produce the desired results when nothing else will appears > with depressing frequency. > > The final point does relate to Excel and any application that hides what > is going on to the casual observer. I will treasure this URL to give to > anyone who chastises my moaning when I have to perform some task in Excel. > It is not an error in the application (although these certainly exist) but > a salutory caution to those who think that if a reasonable looking number > appears in a cell, it must be the correct answer. I have found not one, but > two such errors in the simple calculation of a "birthday age" from the date > of birth and date of death. > > Jim > > ______________________________**________________ > R-help@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/**listinfo/r-help<https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help> > PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/** > posting-guide.html <http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html> > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. > -- Shane [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
