Thursday, July 16, 2009

Statistics

It probably WOULD go more quickly if I plugged numbers into Excel, wrote a couple of simple equations, and hit "enter," but . . .

1. I hate flipping back and forth between Excel pages. If I calculate on paper, I can keep the pertinent data on the computer screen and just glance up at what I need.

2. It's actually a fairly simple statistic to calculate.

3. Calculating the statistic by hand actually helps me understand what it means. This understanding, methinks, will come in handy when I go write up the data in the manuscript.

4. Writing keeps my fingers "agile" and able to work properly.

3 comments:

Sarah Brock said...

OR You just like showing off! What did you think about HP???????

Dawn Allenbach said...

Sarah -- If I wanted to show off, dear, I'd do a complete ANOVA with about 50 data points or something. A G test is hardly showing off.

I'll discuss HP later. What did YOU think?

Sarah Brock said...

I think HP deserves an entire blog....so quit being a slacker and get to it!