Started a new fact article for ANALOG entitled "Spanking Bad Data Won't Make Them Behave" about the problems of definition, measurement, sampling, and adjustment of data, illustrated with various personal experiences from my storied youth.
The good news is that it is up to 5000 words already. The bad news is that the standard limit for such articles is 4000 words. And I'm not finished yet. Ah, well. I must hone me boning knife.
An excerpt from the first draft:
Published on August 06, 2012 13:16