> It sort of reminds me of graduate >students coming in with all their data collected and announcing, "now >help me make some statistical sense for my dissertation." or, maybe even worse, using a data set that already exists (maybe part of some larger project) and SUBVERTINIG/CHANGING the question or questions he/she really WANTS to explore by accepting the ease of getting SOME data even though the variables and methods used to GET the data are not exactly the same (or maybe not even close) as what the student would/should have done to be able to pursue his or her real questions of interest in fact, i would say that this is worse ... since, one goal we have in graduate research is to let the student create their interests and then pursue them .... and in a sense, it is a more defensible error to allow the student to make to work with their owned flawed data ... and qualify the results based on that fact ... than to make the error of having the student pursue someone ELSE's agenda ... by using data he/she perhaps had no personal connection with IMHO >================================================================= >Instructions for joining and leaving this list and remarks about >the problem of INAPPROPRIATE MESSAGES are available at > http://jse.stat.ncsu.edu/ >================================================================= ================================================================= Instructions for joining and leaving this list and remarks about the problem of INAPPROPRIATE MESSAGES are available at http://jse.stat.ncsu.edu/ =================================================================
