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- From: Avery Andrews <andaling@FAC.ANU.EDU.AU>
- Subject: Re: Presenting PCT
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- [Avery Andrews 921216.1551]
- Rick Marken (921215.2000)
-
- I agree that statistics without models is not nice if there is a reasonable
- prospect of doing better. But I also think that just complaining about
- it doesn't accomplish much. Like, it hasn't, has it?
-
- Perhaps, naively, I think that if people see concrete prospects for doing
- better in areas (*not* methodologies, but big questions, like `how do
- people manage to get their hands to their coffee cups', or `how do people
- manage to give and get directions for getting to places) that they are
- interested in, they might go along. But then the powers of obscurantism
- are deep and potent, so maybe they won't.
-
- Back to my Xwindows fun & games (I've managed to animate a vertical bar,
- moving horizontally -- a *long* way from a working arm, but here's hoping
-