Date: Wed, 4 Jun 2003 12:08:34 -0400
Reply-To: Ian Whitlock <WHITLOI1@WESTAT.COM>
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From: Ian Whitlock <WHITLOI1@WESTAT.COM>
Subject: Re: Your opinion is solicited on the statement "you use SAS becau
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My consultant on these matters suggested that the wording comes from the
common saying "Two swallows do not a summer make." and backed up the claim
for common usage with a search on google for the sentence.
IanWhitlock@westat.com
-----Original Message-----
From: Jack Hamilton [mailto:JackHamilton@FIRSTHEALTH.COM]
Sent: Tuesday, June 03, 2003 2:51 PM
To: SAS-L@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU
Subject: Re: Your opinion is solicited on the statement "you use SAS because
I've always heard that as "Two wrongs don't make a right". Maybe the UK
version is different.
--
JackHamilton@FirstHealth.com
Manager, Technical Development
Metrics Department, First Health
West Sacramento, California USA
>>> "Robert Stratton" <rstratton@PHD.CO.UK> 06/03/2003 11:35 AM >>>
I'm reasonably sure that 99% of the English speaking world knows the saying
"two wrongs do not a right make", and has also read countless derivations
like the one you quote. Probably best to check your own lingusitic prowess
first?
paul_dorfman@HOTMAIL.COM (Paul Dorfman) wrote in message
news:<BAY2-F154QmBuq3dLLJ0000ba64@hotmail.com>...
> >From: Roger Lustig <trovato@BELLATLANTIC.NET>
> >
> >--If you don't believe there's something to my previous point, then
> >please explain what this means: "Our competent statisticians can
> >explain their methodologies using their own qualifications without
> >giving reference to an off source."
>
> Roger,
>
> I have tried hard to abstainfrom this, uhm... unprofessionalizm, but
finally
> your choice of example has got me fired up. If you had looked harder
at the
> site Bob referenced, you would have found this perl:
>
> "Two underpowered studies do not a full properly powered study
make."
>
> Candidly, I am at lost about the origin of the creators of this
linguistic
> diamond. Surely not Ukrainian, Russian, Polish, or any other Slavic
tongue.
> If it were, it would look more like
>
> "Two underpowered studies not compensate for one complete properly
powered
> study".
>
> Still flawed, but at least comprehensible. I guess what I am trying
to
> convey to the authors of the page is:
>
> "Everything from SAS/STAT competent your statisticians in heartbeat
with
> their pocket can program using calculator. Ok, one properly full
powdered
> study me show two underpowdered studies do not a full properly
powdered
> study make".
>
> Deal?
>
> Kind regards,
> -----------------------------------
> Paul M. Dorfman
> Jacksonville, FL
> -----------------------------------
>
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