Posted by Alan Bachrach M.D. on October 25, 2002 at 22:29:11:
In Reply to: Letter in NYTimes from Hillary Rodham Clinton posted by Ellen on October 24, 2002 at 15:58:16:
Some really great ideas here!
Let's see... Hmmm... What should we track?
Phase of the moon? Number of Whoppers sold at Burger King? Percentage of kids trick or treating? Number of Chiropractic manipulations per month? Why the list is endless!
And the correlation matrix (for those statitisticians out there) would be infinitely huge!
And the potential governmental dollars spent on crappy research will keep the next generation of biostatisticians, social scientists, epidemiologists and rappers fed and clothed for at least a generation. Great idea!