[Billthedrill]

Despite this, a quick review of the first page of the paper was sufficient to raise doubts as to the accuracy of its results. Just a few hours of analysis and calculations, based only on published information, was sufficient to uncover apparently serious (but surely inadvertent) errors in the underlying calculations.

Inadvertent my aching nates. The difference is that amateurs now have computing power in their laptops sufficient to crunch enough data to blow through the misrepresentation that should never have seen print in the first place. I had a professor (long dead these many years, alas) tell me one time that statistics was the most important class I would take as an undergraduate, and he wasn't a statistician. What he was, was right.

[PeterPrinciple]

statistics was the most important class I would take as an undergraduate, and he wasn’t a statistician. What he was, was right.

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My old school statistics prof said the following: “Statistics NEVER gives you an answer, at best, it might give you another question.”