But you have a 5% chance of being wrong.  I'm gearing up for my comps this
Friday, and of course one of the questions will be on Biostatistics.

beth >t

-----Original Message-----
From: St. John's University Cerebral Palsy List
[mailto:[log in to unmask]]On Behalf Of Kathy Salkin
Sent: Tuesday, October 29, 2002 11:31 AM
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Subject: Re: another shooting


LOL I'm falling out of my chair, laughing... Yes, my grad school stats prof
used to do the same thing to us, pointing out inane cause and effects
supposedly bolstered by high correlation coefficients.  You're right of
course, numbers can be manipulated to prove any point you wish.

Kat

On Tue, 29 Oct 2002 11:09:26 -0500 "Cleveland, Kyle E."
<[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> Ah, Joy,  I'm sure you've been through Stats
> 101 at GWU already.  One can
> back up virtually any claim, using
> "statistics".  Here's an argument for
> you, compliments of me dear Mother-In-Law: