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Re: finding new developers
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John Darrington |
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Re: finding new developers |
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Tue, 10 Nov 2015 07:21:58 +0100 |
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On Mon, Nov 09, 2015 at 10:20:24PM +0100, ftr wrote:
When reading the R stats papers I often have the impression
people do R for the love of programming and not because they have
to solve a substantial question.
Programming is about solving questions. Substantial ones and other ones.
One thing that disappoints me with the omnipotence of computers today, is
the number of people who use them, without having a clue what the machine
is doing.
This is particularly important with statistical hypothesis testing. Having
calculated (say) a P-value - that value is useless unless you know what it
means under under what conditions it was generated.
I personally beleive that whatever way PSPP is developed, it should be
one that encourages the user to become more knowledgeable - not less
knowledgeable.
Just my $0.02
J'
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- Re: Multi response sets in PSPP, (continued)
- Re: Multi response sets in PSPP, Matthias Faeth, 2015/11/07
- finding new developers, Matej Kovacic, 2015/11/09
- Re: finding new developers, Nigel Brown, 2015/11/09
- RE: finding new developers, Charles Johnson, 2015/11/09
- Re: finding new developers, Nigel Brown, 2015/11/09
- Re: finding new developers, Alan Mead, 2015/11/09
- Re: finding new developers, Nigel Brown, 2015/11/09
- Re: finding new developers, ftr, 2015/11/09
- Re: finding new developers,
John Darrington <=
- RE: finding new developers, Charles Johnson, 2015/11/09
Re: Multi response sets in PSPP, Ben Pfaff, 2015/11/06
Re: Multi response sets in PSPP, Juan Zuluaga, 2015/11/07