Brian Sandle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> You are still doing exactly the same, trying to claim quals as an excuse
> for saying anything.
>
> We should take the points that each person says and examine them, no
> matter how lowly or high, with equal care.
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First, I am uninterested in discussions about mathematical trivia.
I stick with what I was taught in multivariate statistics as they
relate to what I do in social science research, and leave the proofs
to the mathematicians. Perhaps what you want to do, Sandle, is instead
of bothering me about math, just talk to sci.stat.edu?
Second, I wont even bother to talk to you unless you can backtrack
from the quote I just posted in "What the fuck", where you, Sandle,
proposed eliminating statistical control procedures from basic
correlational research on on the relation of prenatal cocaine exposure
to human development.
In essence, with a straight face, you said it might be a good idea
to *not* control for socioeconomic factors in a study of the relation
of prenatal cocaine exposure to later development, because you thought
that the folks who were impoverished might be poor because they used
cocaine. In essence, you proposed to Dr. Proctor that socio-economic
factors should be treated as a proxy variable for cocaine use, as if
poverty and cocaine use should simply be assumed to have a 1-1
relationship, which is utterly freaking ridiculous, and involves
basically bringing in facts simply not in evidence here.
You propose hopelessly contaminating this line of research for no
other reason than to cast doubt on the current consensus of research
in this area, and certainly not for any coherent or defensible reason
in terms of empirical design. Its a distraction from talk about dope
policy, and in fact is likely off-topic for both sci.stat.edu, and
talk.politics.drugs.
Brian Miller is right: you're just here to conjure up demons.
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