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ON Feb. 7th Ronan M Conroy said:
>
> Tim Dorcey wants to know why the behavioural science students
> all want to use multi-mode maximum likelihood hierarchical
> factor analysis and the engineers want to investigate the
> outliers in a simple regression. I suggest this is because,
> in engineering, like in medicine, lives may be lost or property
> belonging to someone who has a smart lawyer damaged by the
> application of of misguided statistics. You do not find
> people who are accountable to the outside world using factor
> analysis because if someone got killed or somebody's house
> fell down there is simply no way you could explain its use, much
> less justify it, in a law court. I suggest that lack of accountability
> is the largest reason for the apalling statistical tomfoolery
> that goes on in purely academic subjects.


 Then again there is always the appropriate use of statistics by the medical
 profession! :)


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