On 15-Jul-09 14:45:26, S Ellison wrote: > >>>> Duncan Murdoch <murd...@stats.uwo.ca> 15/07/2009 15:04:29 >>> >> * R has a new predictive punishment module. It punishes you for >> things it knows you will do later. > Dang! Does that mean it'll return errors for the statistical idiocy > I haven't yet got around to committing? > > ;-) > > Steve E
It is even more twisted and sadistic than that. Being an Expert System on Human Psychology (how else could it succeed so well in putting the user on the wrong foot), it knows that the user will interpret the punishment as being related to the correct thing that the user just did, even though the punishment is for the thing that will be done later. Users will therefore develop an inhibition in respect of correct actions, and will be driven into incorrect behaviour. The incorrect thing that will be done later will be punished anyway. Since the complement to {an incorrect thing} is {correct thing} union {all the other incorrect things} the user will end up a) Confused b) Increasingly likely to do incorrect things, therefore increasingly likely to be punished, finally being punished on almost all occasions of action (predictively or not). So, now we know ... :( Ted. -------------------------------------------------------------------- E-Mail: (Ted Harding) <ted.hard...@manchester.ac.uk> Fax-to-email: +44 (0)870 094 0861 Date: 15-Jul-09 Time: 16:21:53 ------------------------------ XFMail ------------------------------ ______________________________________________ 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.