from Amazon
Saturday, April 09, 2011
Proposing that academics don’t limit themselves to numbers, but (gulp) talk to human beings
Blasphemy from Phil!
No, really, why don’t more academics do this? Just because it’s subjective, doesn’t mean that it’s useless. Sure, it could be biased, but cold hard numbers are also biased. Imagine you look at cold hard numbers, but don’t adjust for Coors or the Astrodome? You look at the numbers, but don’t adjust for the batter handedness? If you knew exactly how to parse the data and look for exactly for all the variables, that’s one thing. But, there’s plenty the numbers don’t capture, things that a person could provide some insight.
As Phil noted, in this case, it’s only 29 data points. Why not talk to experts and see what they say?
Recent comments
Older comments
Page 1 of 344 pages 1 2 3 > Last »Complete Archive – By Category
Complete Archive – By Date