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| Authored by: PJ on Friday, May 18 2012 @ 07:47 PM EDT |
I would be surprised by that, in that a
smarmy law firm knows how to find an
expert that will say whatever he's paid
to say. [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Saturday, May 19 2012 @ 02:56 AM EDT |
I read a paper a while back that I had trouble believing. It
discussed how in
one trial one of the parties interviewed a number that I recall
being over 50
experts until they found one who agreed with their
position
Nothing new with that in the world of statistics - I
recommend How
to lie with statistics by Darrell Huff (not only for seeing how statistics
are used to push a point, but also because I feel it is rather appropriate for a
much wider field: all of life in general about statements people make - the
statistics bits just makes it easier to bamboozle people and direct them away
from the real liar). One example given is how some market research will do lots
of random surveys until one with the results they want occurs (actually quite
likely!), publish that one and [quietly] throw away all the ones which didn't
give the required result.
At school I used this technique with Physics
experiments - adding in the "fudge factor" to get the right answer...[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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