Why do you think this post is "negative"? "Negative" towards what?
> 87% of statistics are made up.
Yes, of course, I didn't mean "lower integer part of nine tenths of the total number of problems". Did that really need to be specified?
>> Of the 1% that can't be solved either way, 90% are solved with other statistical techniques (timeseries modeling, decision trees and so on).
> But why?
Is it really controversial that you should go for the simplest model that works?
> not fucking up your data, modeling your tables correctly, and a SQL query
And getting a pony.
> Of the 10% that can't be solved that way, 90% are solved with data cleaning + a linear model.
87% of statistics are made up.
> Of the 1% that can't be solved either way, 90% are solved with other statistical techniques (timeseries modeling, decision trees and so on).
But why?