Re: Adumbo still can't answer simple question
- From: illywhacker <illywacker@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 27 May 2008 13:53:14 -0700 (PDT)
On May 27, 9:33 pm, John Smith <jsmith_...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Dear Mr Weaver,
And by the way, if you want anyone to believe this
"concern for
newbies" shtick, you ought to post occasional
responses to newbie
questions. As far as I can tell, all of your posts
are (inflammatory)
responses to Afonso.
If I were to answer a newbie question thread that had not already been polluted by Adumbostistics, many might see my name on that thread and conclude that it already was polluted by Adumbostistics. Hence, in such situations I offer nothing.
In those cases where Adumbo has polluted the thread with his version of "statistics", it is invariably the case that someone else already has answered the newbie's question.
If you are really interested in helping the newbies then you should
start off by pointing out to them everything that is wrong with
confidence intervals and related codswallop. I suggest you read:
Jaynes, E. T., 1976. `Confidence Intervals vs Bayesian Intervals,' in
Foundations of Probability Theory, Statistical Inference, and
Statistical Theories of Science, W. L. Harper and C. A. Hooker (eds.),
D. Reidel, Dordrecht, p. 175.
You can find the pdf here (but beware, it is an 8MB file):
http://bayes.wustl.edu/etj/articles/confidence.pdf
It is not difficult to read, but it shows why the rag-bag of tricks
that constitutes orthodox statistics should be thrown out of the
window. Particularly instructive are the schlerotic remarks made by
various eminent statisticians in the discussion at the end. They
cannot bring themselves to admit that they could not think clearly or
critically enough to see through the mumbo-jumbo they were fed as
students.
illywhacker;
.
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