Re: A Non- Statistical Analysis do you mean?
Re: A Statistical Analysis of the Happiness Quotient of students of Inspirational Speaker, Prem Rawat -- paddy	Top of thread		Forum

Posted by: Juan Carlo Finesseti ® 03/28/2005, 10:34:06 Author Profile Edit Alert Moderators

I've been told that people aren't really interested in my rarified observations about such questions, but basically you've committed a cardinal "no-no" in statistical analysis, called "selection bias." Through your nested exclusions, as opposed to an analysis of either the entire premie community (to create an hypothesis) or a random sample of the larger population extensive enough to include a statistically significant number of premies (which would be enormously expensive) you've virtually guaranteed your result. It's almost as though you'd said: "Let's consider a subsample of socially "normal" premies to see if they're "normal."" Well, of course they are. At least superficially. A certain percentage of Al Qaeda "sleepers" will look pretty darned normal too, by such subjective standards. Modified by Juan Carlo Finesseti at Mon, Mar 28, 2005, 10:52:36

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Thank you for that --- gerry ( Mon, Mar 28, 2005, 12:58:46 ) ( 245 bytes ) +1 Re: Thank you for that --- NikW ( Mon, Mar 28, 2005, 13:10:23 ) ( 359 bytes ) +1 Piss off, Nik --- gerry ( Mon, Mar 28, 2005, 13:53:35 ) ( 217 bytes ) He forgot the "null hypothesis," Juan! --- NAR ( Mon, Mar 28, 2005, 14:27:03 ) ( 84 bytes ) +2 He also used a confidence interval of about 0.000004% NT (no text) --- Jethro ( Mon, Mar 28, 2005, 15:16:00 ) ( 0 bytes ) Some stats are bullsh*t --- Jerry ( Mon, Mar 28, 2005, 15:22:26 ) ( 1356 bytes ) +3 As a matter of fact, Jer --- Jim ( Mon, Mar 28, 2005, 15:36:02 ) ( 1745 bytes ) +1 Dawkins again, eh? --- Jerry ( Mon, Mar 28, 2005, 17:46:38 ) ( 493 bytes ) +1 Re: Dawkins again, eh? --- Jim ( Mon, Mar 28, 2005, 19:44:06 ) ( 498 bytes ) +1 Re: Dawkins again, eh? --- Jerry ( Tue, Mar 29, 2005, 05:08:58 ) ( 588 bytes ) +1 something odd about dreams (OT-ish) --- Jonti ( Thu, Mar 31, 2005, 04:11:39 ) ( 1322 bytes ) +1 Re: something odd about dreams (OT-ish) --- Jerry ( Thu, Mar 31, 2005, 09:04:20 ) ( 810 bytes ) +1 Re: something odd about dreams (OT-ish) --- Jonti ( Thu, Mar 31, 2005, 12:52:09 ) ( 1245 bytes ) +1 Re: something odd about dreams (OT-ish) --- Jerry ( Thu, Mar 31, 2005, 14:22:37 ) ( 599 bytes ) Interesting point, Jerry --- Joe ( Mon, Mar 28, 2005, 16:09:51 ) ( 1511 bytes ) +1 Re: Interesting point, Joe --- Jerry ( Mon, Mar 28, 2005, 17:51:34 ) ( 348 bytes ) +1 Very true --- Joe ( Mon, Mar 28, 2005, 18:03:40 ) ( 433 bytes ) Re: Some stats are bullsh*t --- Juan Carlo Finesseti ( Mon, Mar 28, 2005, 17:21:10 ) ( 3827 bytes ) +1 Re: Some stats are bullsh*t --- Jerry ( Mon, Mar 28, 2005, 18:28:39 ) ( 617 bytes ) +1 Re: Some stats are bullsh*t --- Juan Carlo Finesseti ( Mon, Mar 28, 2005, 23:47:41 ) ( 2295 bytes ) Re: A Non- Statistical Analysis do you mean? --- paddy ( Mon, Mar 28, 2005, 22:13:22 ) ( 501 bytes ) +1 Re: A Non- Statistical Analysis do you mean? --- Juan Carlo Finesseti ( Tue, Mar 29, 2005, 10:18:49 ) ( 223 bytes )