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Date Posted: 21:32:45 02/04/00 Fri
Author: Anonymous
Subject: Misuse of probability Statistics?
In reply to: 's message, "Re: ??" on 18:39:41 02/04/00 Fri

Good point. I see all this talk about probability statistics and comparative statistics as an excuse to ignore the structural issues that we know already exist. Comparative statistic is fine if we are dealing with data that contain similar constraints and the same range of variables. But we cannot compare PNG with USA. Doing that would be an abuse of the statistical process.There are exisitng biases caused by differences in education and economic progress. Look at New Zealand for example.It has three million people and is already doing better than PNG and even Australia in some issues. There is more to the issue than population size and that variable is education, quality education. Once we are all equally educated then we can start dabbling in this probability thing.

People should get real and think about why the standards and caliber of employees have actually dropped. Thats right. Dropped. Its not that we didn't have them. We did but they were bullied and abused out of the bureaucracy.

I realised that a long while back and never wanted to join the public service for the reason that nepotism was already creeping into the system as far back as the 80s.

We can be as good as anybody, but we can't do that if don't band together and weed out the firewall that prevents us from moving forward.

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