Tuesday, January 30, 2007

When scientists follow cobblers

On the Wikipedia site for goodness of fit

Goodness-of-fit actually refers to the degree to which a shoe conforms to the wearers foot. The term was co-opted by academicians in the early twentieth century, and is used to describe the the degree to which you can force your preconcieved notions to be upheld by the results of your statistical tests (aka. the anti apriori approach).

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