Mark Difford wrote: > Indeed! And, apropos of the expression, "to be Ripleyed" (and so be > condemned to eating cookies for a long, long time), what about being > "Billasted"? > > BestR, > Mark. > > > Simon Blomberg-4 wrote: > >> I second the nomination! >> >> Simon. >> >> On Tue, 2007-07-10 at 10:02 -0600, Greg Snow wrote: >> >>> I nominate the following 2 pieces from Bill's reply for fortunes >>> (probably 2 separate fortunes): >>> >>> >>> >>> >>>> All this becomes even more glaring if you take the unusal >>>> step of plotting the data. >>>> >>> and >>> >>> >>>> What sort of editor would overlook this clear and >>>> demonstrable message leaping out from the data in favour of >>>> some arcane argument about "types of sums of squares"? >>>> Several answers come to mind: A power freak, a SAS >>>> afficianado, an idiot. >>>> More seriously on this topic is the need to educate editors. Few editors in the biological field (real biology, biomed etc) appear to have, or if they have, to exercise, any sort of near current judgment on statistical methods, techniques or interpretations. Referees often have no knowledge of analysis and editors blindly back their referee ... (my own pet gripe here is being asked for replicates when showing the existence of a phenomenon ... The assertion 'all swans are black' is refuted by the observation of a white swan ... Referee: how many replicates did the researcher have? There appears to be a single sample here; where is the confidence interval on the proportion of white swans?).
A little learning is a dangerous thing ... (Pope) ... and most biological editors may have a compulsory undergraduate subject in their distant background, from which they remember 'Yates' correction' and 'no cell with fewer than 5 observations' (sic), Richard Rowe -- Dr Richard Rowe Zoology & Tropical Ecology School of Tropical Biology James Cook University Townsville 4811 AUSTRALIA ph +61 7 47 81 4851 fax +61 7 47 25 1570 JCU has CRICOS Provider Code 00117J ______________________________________________ [email protected] 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.
