Compromise and Conceit

2 responses to “I Can’t Believe I Have to Put Up This Screenshot”

1. 

   Paul

   September 21, 2012

   What does that mean?

   I can understand the download bit easily enough, but the maths results don’t say anything to me.

2. 

   faustusnotes

   September 21, 2012

   Someone was wrong on the internet! But actually we were talking at cross-purposes, and after I put up this picture we worked out the error. It’s connected with Lewandowsky’s paper: basically the two lines of code you don’t understand give you the results of the factor analysis of CO2-related questions in Lewandowsky’s study.

   Funnily enough, I didn’t really understand the download bit, I just copy-pasted. Specialization, eh?

   (Incidentally, since you probably don’t do it yourself: that environment you see in that picture is what we statisticians see for hours of every day of our lives. I use Stata so mine is a bit prettier, but that’s my life in a nutshell…)