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On Wed, 21 Feb 2007 16:36:28 +0000, Peter Lewis wrote: |
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> > More seriously, there is such a thing as a bad question, and they |
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> > significantly outnumber the good. Most questions provide too little |
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> > information to get a really useful answer. |
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> That may well be true, but it doesn't make the question invalid - just |
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> perhaps in the wrong forum |
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It does make the question invalid if it provides insufficient information |
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to permit a helpful answer. After all, the whole point of posting the |
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question is to get the answer. |
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Neil Bothwick |
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Velilind's Laws of Experimentation: |
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1. If reproducibility may be a problem, conduct the test only once. |
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2. If a straight line fit is required, obtain only two data points. |
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