{"id":246,"date":"2009-06-17T14:37:40","date_gmt":"2009-06-17T21:37:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.johnnylogic.org\/?p=246"},"modified":"2009-06-17T14:37:40","modified_gmt":"2009-06-17T21:37:40","slug":"statistical-consulting-commandments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.johnnylogic.org\/blog\/2009\/06\/17\/statistical-consulting-commandments\/","title":{"rendered":"Statistical Consulting Commandments"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Herman Rubin has five commandments that he posted on UseNet from time to time:<\/p>\n<p>For the client:<\/p>\n<p>1. Thou shalt know that thou must make assumptions.<\/p>\n<p>2. Thou shalt not believe thy assumptions.<\/p>\n<p>For the consultant:<\/p>\n<p>3. Thou shalt not make thy client\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s assumptions for him.<\/p>\n<p>4. Thou shalt inform thy client of the consequences of his assumptions.<\/p>\n<p>For the person who is both (e. g., a biostatistician or psychometrician):<\/p>\n<p>5. Thou shalt keep thy roles distinct, lest thou violate some of the other commandments.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>From the comments over at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stat.columbia.edu\/~cook\/movabletype\/archives\/2009\/06\/the_defining_va.html#comment-926117\">Andrew Gelman&#8217;s Blog<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Herman Rubin has five commandments that he posted on UseNet from time to time: For the client: 1. Thou shalt know that thou must make assumptions. 2. Thou shalt not believe thy assumptions. For the consultant: 3. Thou shalt not make thy client\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s assumptions for him. 4. Thou shalt inform thy client of the consequences [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-246","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","czr-hentry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p71YpQ-3Y","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johnnylogic.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johnnylogic.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johnnylogic.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johnnylogic.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johnnylogic.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=246"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.johnnylogic.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":248,"href":"https:\/\/www.johnnylogic.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246\/revisions\/248"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johnnylogic.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johnnylogic.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johnnylogic.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}