--- In [email protected], akasha_108 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > LB, (or anyone familiar with the study) > > Per your prior note, > > What was added in the 25% second round of analysis, relative to the > first round, the 17% results? Was it the weather variables or Index? > > Or was weather included in the first round of analysis? If weather > was in the first round. what was added in the second round. > > When where the other control variables, other crime factors such as > police on the street, police practices, LE funding, etc introduced?
******** Clearing up a minor point on my own initial "lowball" estimate of 17%: PANDITS HAD BEEN PART OF THE ORIGINAL PROTOCOL. They had been bought and paid for. Then they didn't show. So the group that participated was not as powerful as the group that had originally been anticipated. After the scaling back of original reports claiming 25% reduction (might have been 20% come to think of it), there was an ongoing effort of several months to make the data fit. My graduate student friend Mark ______ (last name still not remembered) was a part of this. I had a standing joke with him about it: whenever I bumped into him I would ask, "Seen any good statistics lately?" Then he would give me an informal update. Let me be clear that this was not a conspiratorial relationship. Mark was completely sold on the program and convinced that the correct interpretation of the data would reveal the results. I was just an innocent bystander. Sort of. Since I was not recording all the details for posterity at the time, only the impressions remain. The impressions indicated that it took quite an effort to "rectify" the findings based on their original model. I do not remember a single alteration or adjustment, but something more like a scavenger hunt. It is interesting to me how we are all quibbling about the details. If anything is revealed here, it is that the "demonstration" demonstrated nothing. Except, perhaps, to the participants. Personally, I thought the course was a great experience. I doubt if anyone outside the course even remembers it. Certainly it is not being cited in all the journals as a profound feat of engineering in the domain of collective consciousness. Needless to say, this is a typical cult phenomenon—the insiders believing that their every breath shakes the world, the outsiders not even noticing. L B S ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Get fast access to your favorite Yahoo! Groups. Make Yahoo! your home page http://us.click.yahoo.com/dpRU5A/wUILAA/yQLSAA/JjtolB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
