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Old 04-23-2009, 10:47 AM   #273
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Looking at trends in statistics and making inferences is done in many businesses every single day. It's a perfectly legitimate thing to do.
Yes, and I do those sorts of things in my work, but I understand their limitations.

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And it's certainly more data than you've provided supporting your position.
My position is "you don't have enough data" so I don't need data to support my position. The only way to know if you're right is with time, and since 100 other factors are also evolving with time, whatever the outcome can always be blamed on something else. Yes, it sucks for both of us.

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Besides, I was only doing what you said "at best" I'd "need" to do. If you don't want to see a correlation, then don't tell me that's what I need to find.
I don't think the stats on one release are enough to show a correlation in the entire industry, and I don't think a correlation in the entire industry is enough to show a causation.
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