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------- Additional comments from [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Jul 16 14:28:26 -0700 2006 ------- @oooer: You see this from a strict scientifically point of view when you say "bend the truth". I may point out that Office suites are used (and are to be used) by all sorts of people, some of which might not even care about scientific statistics, just want a nice fitting for visualization. Take f.e. a businessman that wants to visualize the mean growth of their company's profits and which knows that it had 0 profits in, lets say, 2000, because it the company was just founded this year. He/she wants a diagram with a line going through the "(2000, 0)" point simply for the look of it. Also sometimes constraints such as "fixed points" simply exist. Sometimes it is better for a computer model to prefer a slightly wrong relationship formula over the correct regression, simply to avoid computation side effects and artefacts, or to simplify calculation. You'd maybe call this unscientifically, but such tradeoffs are imho justified in science - as long as they are documented. (I won't go deeper in this - this mailing list is the wrong place for such debates.) Specifically to your comments: - Having warning dialogs if the user does something "unscienfically" would be very appropriate in a scientific software like an actual statistics program. For a "general" office suite I find this out of scope. Imho OOo cannot (and should not even try) to find out when, lets say, diagramm types are inappropriate, diagram colors are hard to tell apart, formulae are nonsense or anything of this sort. > - "The human brain is much better at seeing the "best fit" than an incorrectly > applied bit of maths." You seem to have a much better brain for this, since with my brain I would not dare to fit a line manually, except for a rough sketch. ;-) But seriously, people don't use OOo's diagram features to "paint". And I don't like this "penalty" approach: "If you are not doing strict statistics, use OOo Draw and paint your line by hand." --------------------------------------------------------------------- Please do not reply to this automatically generated notification from Issue Tracker. Please log onto the website and enter your comments. http://qa.openoffice.org/issue_handling/project_issues.html#notification --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
