How Not to Explain Success

Re:How Not to Explain Success by pbreit on Sunday May 29, 2016 @09:51PM (#11799128)

So all the survey subject members were Mechanical Turk users? That sounds like a terrible representation.

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Re:How Not to Explain Success by Houshalter on Sunday May 29, 2016 @10:20PM (#11799207)

Sadly it's still a thousand times better than the book it's disputing, which has little or no empirical backing.

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Re:How Not to Explain Success by forgotpwtomain on Sunday May 29, 2016 @11:00PM (#11799316)

Bad statistics aren't better than no statistics.

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Re:How Not to Explain Success by LionessLover on Sunday May 29, 2016 @11:17PM (#11799373)

Looking at your comment I find this funny. All you make is an assertion.

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Re:How Not to Explain Success by forgotpwtomain on Monday May 30, 2016 @02:40AM (#11799909)

If you take a group that's not representative of the population and you know nothing about the underlying distribution - that's not giving you better information it's just letting you be mislead into making statements which are erroneous.

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