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Posted by mbstevens on 07/07/06 20:56
On Fri, 07 Jul 2006 20:52:54 +0100, Alan J. Flavell wrote:
> On Fri, 7 Jul 2006, Chris Tomlinson wrote:
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>> We appreciate your thoughts, but over 80% of a random selection of
>> people felt it was a good idea in our market research.
>
> Say what you will about Jakob Nielsen (and I know that many designers
> pour scorn on his own hair-shirt web page design), but at least he has
> the sense to produce actual working designs and try them out on
> prospective users, watching them to see how usable the designs are,
> rather than merely asking them "in a vacuum" whether they thought it
> might be "a good idea".
That's twice you've caught C.T. drowning in his own
statistics.
I suspect that he is trying to use a subject matter he does not
understand instead of actually trying to mislead us.
He might start to correct his deficiency by reading the very short
old 1950's classic by Darrel Huff, "How to Lie with Statistics".
(BTW -- loved that 'clue horizon' crack.)
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