On 9/27/07, Rishab Aiyer Ghosh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > statistics, though, when one of the most read papers in Plos medicine > recently was a study showing that over 70% of medical studies were > bogus, simply due to poor statistics.
As an undergraduate I worked my way through college doing the statistical analyses of their surveys for PhD candidates in the social sciences. I might have contributed to the trend, but I tell you there's just so much you can do with a poorly designed survey. Continuous variables that should have been discrete, discrete variables that should have been continuous, poorly worded questions, begging the question, you name it. Then they'd get mad when I'd say "results not significantly different from expected by the null hypothesis." Hey, negative results contribute to human knowledge too, right? -- Charles, still trying to get SAS and SPSS out of his brain.
