From: Ben Goertzel (ben@goertzel.org)
Date: Mon Mar 01 2004 - 13:37:49 MST
I would carefully study the methodology used in producing the numbers --
which is time-consuming and not simple, in most cases. Then I would draw my
conclusions.
I've posted this before, but here again is one of my dad's articles
recounting some abuses of statistics and mathematical modeling in the social
sciences.
http://www.crab.rutgers.edu/~goertzel/mythsofmurder.htm
-- Ben
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> On Mar 1, 2004, at 11:20 AM, Ben Goertzel wrote:
>
> >
> > Yes, but there are all kinds of definitions and assumptions going into
> > the
> > production of statistics like this. You can't just take numbers from
> > reports and draw serious conclusions from them.
> >
> >
>
> Taken to the extreme, if you dismiss "numbers from reports" generally,
> exactly what are you going to "draw serious conclusions" from?
>
> - s
>
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