Re: Help with research

2005-02-18 Thread elena
Thanks for input. You're right. Programmers would probably look for the abolute value of an answer. That's one reason why people sometimes get annoyed with us (I guess I'm thinking of the product managers I've worked with). In any case, this is an existing instrument and was not developed specifica

Re: Help with research

2005-02-18 Thread Jack Diederich
On Thu, Feb 17, 2005 at 07:09:44PM -0500, Jeremy Bowers wrote: > On Thu, 17 Feb 2005 15:51:47 -0800, elena wrote: > > I can go to my friends, however it occurred to me that it might be > > better to post in a newsgroup and get a larger, more diverse, and > > random sample. > > Larger, yes, more d

Re: Help with research

2005-02-17 Thread Jeremy Bowers
On Thu, 17 Feb 2005 15:51:47 -0800, elena wrote: > I can go to my friends, however it occurred to me that it might be > better to post in a newsgroup and get a larger, more diverse, and > random sample. Larger, yes, more diverse, yes, more random, probably not in the statistical/scientific sense.