Some thing to think about

[david ring]

Originally Posted by DrJRacing

from my nightmarish memories of statistics in orthodontic grad school

That is one of the two reasons why my nickname for statistics is sadistics; the other reason is that statisticians torture the data until it confesses to what they want them to say, or at least that what it sometimes seems like. When I taught econometrics, I used to have my students read an article entitled let's take the Con of of econometrics; I'd also sometimes refer to the course as econometricks.