Email to various (Kitty, Doug, etc)

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To: (La petite chat)
CC: (Knight of Cups), (Jamiejamiejamie)
From: (High Priestess)
Subject: That stock market expirement



I find myself with some free time on my hands, and since we are back from Minnesota, I am willing to start this whenever you are, Kitty.

Who else, besides Doug and Jamie, do we want to recruit for a control group? (That is the correct term, yes?)

Comments

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To: {universal translator}
CC: {cutest ever}, {artistic Frenchwoman}
From: {the kitten}

Doug, don't you dare corrupt my control group. The whole point of testing M-A on a topic she doesn't understand is that the data won't have an outside influence. We're doing a secondary test _after_ the first one for which we will learn about stocks, trading, and so on, but if you corrupt the first data set it'll all be a wash.

I've got an inbuilt double blind (since I have no way of controling the stocks prices), but I can't do anything if you go around messing with my source of data.

Sheesh. What sort of experimental theory did they _teach_ you before you got here, anyway? Dr. McCoy would throw a fit.

-K

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To: (Knight of Cups)
CC: (La petite chat), (Jamiejamiejamie)
From: (High Priestess)

Could we make an artifical set of stocks that you alone could know the prices off and see if I could predict those perhaps?

Would that be a lot of work?

[x-kitten.livejournal.com]

To: {artistic Frenchwoman}
CC: {cutest ever}, {universal translator}
From: {the kitten}

I could, but it would cut out the possibility of a double blind (so I don't influence the results), and would be hard to make into something you could predict. I'd have to write a serious random number generator, it'd be at least a month's worth of programing and it a) wouldn't be random (cause no random numbe generator is), and therefor b) no double blind, and c) difficult to control.

Doable, but frustrating.

Would be easier to just throw out Doug's data if it makes a serious difference, and to forbid him from talking to you about stocks. At least as much as possible.

Blast it Doug. You ought to know better. *pouts a frustrated pure research scientist pout*

-K