>-----Original Message----- >From: r-help-boun...@r-project.org [mailto:r-help-boun...@r-project.org] >On Behalf Of Joris Meys >Sent: Monday, June 21, 2010 5:32 AM >To: Patrick Burns >Cc: r-help@r-project.org >Subject: Re: [R] Popularity of R, SAS, SPSS, Stata... > >On Mon, Jun 21, 2010 at 11:15 AM, Patrick Burns ><pbu...@pburns.seanet.com> wrote: >> >> (Statistics is what stuffy professors >> do, I just look at my data and try to >> figure out what it means.) > >Often those stuffy professors have a reason to do so. When they want >an objective view on the data for example, or an objective measure of >the significance of a hypothesis. But you're right, who cares about >objectiveness these days? It doesn't sell you a paper, does it?
Joris, Perhaps we can coin a term that's the statistical equivalent of Stephen Colbert's "truthiness"; when a study totally fails to find anything, but it just "feels significant" in your gut! Bob > >Cheers >Joris > > >-- >Joris Meys >Statistical consultant > >Ghent University >Faculty of Bioscience Engineering >Department of Applied mathematics, biometrics and process control > >tel : +32 9 264 59 87 >joris.m...@ugent.be >------------------------------- >Disclaimer : http://helpdesk.ugent.be/e-maildisclaimer.php > >______________________________________________ >R-help@r-project.org mailing list >https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help >PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting- >guide.html >and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.