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1	Eight Observations and Five Commandments, but first:
2	POPPO QUIZZORUNI! What are data? Why do we collect data? Why is the song title “O Little Town of Bethlehem” and not “O Little Town of Nazareth?”
3	OBSERVATIONS or Things I believe to be true
4	1: Data are used for three purposes Decision and budgetary support and planning Research: how do things work? Lying or misleadin
5	2: Errare humanum est
6	3.1: What is the deal with Statistics? Staat—numbers collected for purposes of state
7	3.2: Statistics has two domains: Descriptive—describing characteristics of a population when you have all of it Inferential—inferring characteristics of a population when you have a sample from it “significance” in Statistics is a measure of probability not magnitude
8	4: Data collected for one purpose can be used for other purposes
9	5: Heidi’s Conclusion No one knows how to measure microfilms
10	6: The True Lesson from the Garden of Eden Good data!
11	Outside the Garden… Bad data!
12	7: Apples and Oranges Almost always you are comparing apples and oranges That’s life, folks
13	8: Our data are bad; everyone else’s are good
14	COMMANDMENTS
15	1: Hippocratic Oath of Data …I will abstain from all intentional wrongdoing and harm… ..ie do no harm
16	2: Never take counsel of your fears
17	3: Hold your theories loosely and your data tightly
18	4: Treat data as you would any other record
19	5: Never use “significant” in talking about data Unless you are using inferential techniques