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From: T.S. Lim <Use-Author-Address-Header@[127.1]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, April 25, 2000 10:49 AM
Subject: Data Mining blooper
> While hunting for URLs for KDCentral.com, I encountered several
> misleading statements about Statistics made by Data Mining people.
> I've posted 3 of them to my bulletin board. If you encounter other
> wrong remarks, I invite you to post them to the board too at
>
> http://www.recursive-partitioning.com/forums
>
> Thanks.
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This essentially supports my argument over the last few years. The
commercial selling of overpriced black boxes generates so much profit for
these companies that they can make any claim whatsoever, and people will buy
it, just like in politics.
The basic selling line is, "you may be stupid, with absolutely no knowledge
of anything, but if you buy my overpriced $20,000 software, you become a
noted expert in anything. You don't have to know anything to use my software
(or vote for me, or....)". It amazes me that college graduates buy this
hook, line and sinker. Then they ask questions on edstat about what does the
output mean.
DAH
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