[R] Hello!

[Joshua Wiley]

On Sun, Feb 27, 2011 at 9:16 AM, Mike Marchywka <marchywka at hotmail.com> wrote:
> I can probably find more "negative" ones if you are interested LOL :)
> I was hoping to find another interesting technical conversation
> to which I could contribute a few thoughts but subjective matters
> do come up with statistical analysis and confirmation bias, rationalization,
> the "power of positive thinking", believing in your data when you
> should be testing it,  is often the biggest problem to getting
> accurate perspective especially with post hoc analysis questions
> as often come up here. Look at some ongoing discussions about scientific
> literature and you find all kinds of problems with failure to publish negative
> results, including clinical drug trials. The power of "positive" thinking,
> seeing what you want to see, wastes a lot of other people's time. You only need to spend
> a few days trying to replicate "positive" results, or just integrate
> them into your understanding of a complex system like a living organism,
>  or buy a few hyped securities to understand how bug this problem really is.

I realize Ulysses was riddled with elaborate enigmas and subtle
references (though Bert and Ravi must have hated the ending), so I
tried to examine this paragraph from multiple angles, but I keep
coming back to, "Huh?"

>
> I personally
> question the utility of the post you cite but I often post things
> in a hurry and make stupid statements myself ( and I don't let money
> change that LOL). You can only type "see the posting guidelines" so
> many times. Punctuation problems can make things hard to read etc.
> I really wouldn't take it that "negatively" whatever that means.