Comments on: I Need Idiotproofing http://greengabbro.net/2007/09/23/i-need-idiotproofing/ rock out to the apparatus Tue, 07 Oct 2008 08:48:25 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.1 By: Lab Lemming http://greengabbro.net/2007/09/23/i-need-idiotproofing/#comment-21087 Lab Lemming Thu, 11 Oct 2007 10:36:03 +0000 http://greengabbro.net/2007/09/23/i-need-idiotproofing/#comment-21087 When I have two supposed to be the same but not columns (X and Y), my first responce is to set up an "X minus Y" column to see if there is a trend. Also, if stats are involved, be aware that excel sometimes gives a non-zero stdev for columns of identical numbers... When I have two supposed to be the same but not columns (X and Y), my first responce is to set up an “X minus Y” column to see if there is a trend. Also, if stats are involved, be aware that excel sometimes gives a non-zero stdev for columns of identical numbers…

]]> By: Andrew Ironwood http://greengabbro.net/2007/09/23/i-need-idiotproofing/#comment-20190 Andrew Ironwood Mon, 24 Sep 2007 16:08:58 +0000 http://greengabbro.net/2007/09/23/i-need-idiotproofing/#comment-20190 Whenever something like that happens to me at work, I usually look fer a wall I'm confident I can't put a hole in (one of the brick ones around the serenity garden outside, or somewhat more often the steel one inside the elevator -- the walls in our offices seem a little too thin to me to risk it) and throw 1 to 3 full-on-ninja-power open palm thrusts at it (but then, I have a high theshold fer self-inflicted pain, so YMMV, of course, of course [grin]...) Whenever something like that happens to me at work, I usually look fer a wall I’m confident I can’t put a hole in (one of the brick ones around the serenity garden outside, or somewhat more often the steel one inside the elevator — the walls in our offices seem a little too thin to me to risk it) and throw 1 to 3 full-on-ninja-power open palm thrusts at it (but then, I have a high theshold fer self-inflicted pain, so YMMV, of course, of course [grin]…)

]]> By: Kim http://greengabbro.net/2007/09/23/i-need-idiotproofing/#comment-20183 Kim Mon, 24 Sep 2007 12:10:27 +0000 http://greengabbro.net/2007/09/23/i-need-idiotproofing/#comment-20183 I think that grad school is designed to make sure that everyone is forced to pout, pull their hair our, and kvetch on the Internet. (I spent approximately two full months trying to get data looking right when I was working on my PhD. Of course, the tools have improved since then. But I think that if the data collection-analysis-plotting becomes stream-lined, then someone will invent a new and better technique to analyze the data.) I think that grad school is designed to make sure that everyone is forced to pout, pull their hair our, and kvetch on the Internet.

(I spent approximately two full months trying to get data looking right when I was working on my PhD. Of course, the tools have improved since then. But I think that if the data collection-analysis-plotting becomes stream-lined, then someone will invent a new and better technique to analyze the data.)

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