Comments on: Is There a Black Box in your Research Methodology?

By: Moss

Moss — Sat, 01 Dec 2007 20:25:00 +0000

And just in case you haven't been paying attention, there's the recent past to recall. There's the recent Excel bug (fortunately a display-only bug, but close!).

By: Greg Laden

Greg Laden — Tue, 20 Nov 2007 22:39:37 +0000

r rocks.

By: KMSL

KMSL — Tue, 20 Nov 2007 20:12:51 +0000

Since we’re onto that, I’m going to say arrrrrr! (as in http://www.r-project.org)

By: greg laden

greg laden — Tue, 20 Nov 2007 12:31:12 +0000

Gnumeric! It’s cool.

By: IanR

IanR — Tue, 20 Nov 2007 11:41:12 +0000

The sad thing about this is that some people still do statistics in Excel, despite the fact that version after version was shown to mis-calculate basic statistics. (I’m not sure about the last two versions, but I’m not sure what would prompt to fix a well-known problem after all this time).