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2006-10-04 Science & Technology

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Posted by .com 2006-10-04 02:36|| || Front Page|| [3 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Wow, it took them only eighty years to epply somthing a student in stics is supposed to have assimilated before the Cristmas holidays in first years: eliminate structural effects.

As an illustration: one day someone told me that women had more car accidents than men but these were on avergae less lethal and the person inferred that men were more prone to reckless driving. I instantly replied: "You can't infer that before you have studied the structure of their travel: women tend to travel in cities (for shopping) while on highways you will see more often than not that it is a man who is driving and the speed involved make accidents lethal. Only after you have removed the structure effect can you derive valid conclusions"

Of course I was immediately catalogued as a male chauvinist for what it was merely a thought coming from my statistician reptilian brain

Posted by JFM">JFM 2006-10-04 04:03|| 2006-10-04 04:03|| Front Page Top

#2 "correlation is not causation" Isn't that in stats lesson one?

Posted by Crugum Spaise2608 2006-10-04 08:34|| 2006-10-04 08:34|| Front Page Top

#3 Awesome picture! im ready to go back to breast feeding.

Posted by Raider Ray">Raider Ray 2006-10-04 20:25|| 2006-10-04 20:25|| Front Page Top

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