William Chambers wrote:
"It amazes me to read the self-righteous judgements of people on this thread.. a
number of whom have made incompetent criticisms of corresponding correlations
with the same arrogance and stupidity that they attribute to the data mining
boys, ..."
As one of the 'data mining boys', I would assert that the data mining field is
littered with exactly the kind of mistaken thinking which has been described in
this thread. I don't know that data miners (as a group) are a whole lot worse
than statisticians (as a group), but there are certainly problems. I will leave
questions of self-righteousness to others, but I would point out that whether or
not the critics are incompetent, etc. has nothing to do with whether their
claims of data mining incompetence are true.
Will Dwinnell
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