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Re:What is going on with measures of programming language po... by DoreenMichele on Monday October 01, 2018 @06:20PM (#18117305)
There is an excellent book on such things that I highly recommend: How to lie with statistics

Problems like this are part of why we have sayings like:

Measure twice, cut once.

GIGO (Garbage in, garbage out)

Some saying about measuring to extreme precision, then "cutting with an axe."

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Re:What is going on with measures of programming language po... by bcheung on Monday October 01, 2018 @10:20PM (#18118363)
> Measure twice, cut once.

I always thought that had to do with carpentry and woodworking, not statistics.

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Re:What is going on with measures of programming language po... by DoreenMichele on Monday October 01, 2018 @11:41PM (#18118659)
Same problem space to my mind: applying math to the real world in some meaningful, useful fashion.
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