Of course, this methodology is nonsense, but it’s nonsense with a graph and a line of best fit.
I am totally stealing this line.
Heh. I have just had occasion to use it. The synchronicity!
Cool! In a piece you can share? It’d be fun to see it.
Nothing I can share, it was in an email conversation with colleagues over a statistical modelling question.
I have also had occasion to quote von Neumann: “with four parameters I can fit an elephant, and with five I can make him wiggle his trunk.”
I am totally stealing this line.
Heh. I have just had occasion to use it. The synchronicity!
Cool! In a piece you can share? It’d be fun to see it.
Nothing I can share, it was in an email conversation with colleagues over a statistical modelling question.
I have also had occasion to quote von Neumann: “with four parameters I can fit an elephant, and with five I can make him wiggle his trunk.”