From: tmoran@bix.com (Tom Moran)
Subject: Re: Using ARRAYS for grade reporting?
Date: 1998/04/21
Date: 1998-04-21T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <353d2d0a.9823778@SantaClara01.news.InterNex.Net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: dewar.893038934@merv
>it is not clear that the rather
>soft statistics that come from such studies can conculsively demonstrate
>anything
I'd hate to think we were telling people "X is better than Y. I have
no evidence, and the difference between X and Y is so small as to not
be measurable, but, hey, I just happen to believe X is better than Y".
What is it that makes the "soft statistics that come from such
studies" so useless? What needs to be changed to get conclusive
demonstrations of propositions? And I wouldn't demand "conclusive" in
the sense of "less than 1% chance of the null hypothesis", but would
be quite happy with a "75% chance you'll save money, and 25% chance
you'll save a bundle of money" type of statement..
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1998-04-19 0:00 Using ARRAYS for grade reporting? tmoran
1998-04-19 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1998-04-21 0:00 ` Tom Moran [this message]
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1998-04-19 0:00 ` GOTHIC SIN
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1998-04-18 0:00 Sam
1998-04-19 0:00 ` GOTHIC SIN
1998-04-19 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1998-04-19 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
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