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A Rubric for IT Analysis

Posted by timothy on from the useful-heuristics dept.

Aredridel writes "Zed A. Shaw has an insightful article on how analyses of software systems should be performed, and how they're often done wrong. It should be required reading for all IT journalists, and all readers of IT journals."

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  1. Hmmmm.... by extagboy · · Score: 4, Funny

    Even worse it works about as well as pricing soap at $1.95 instead of $2.00 to fool people into thinking it's cheaper.

    I think $1.95 is cheaper, isn't it?

    Better run it through the rubric...

    8. Paper does not use the above terms correctly or calculates them incorrectly. Without the data you won't know the second part, but these 6 statistical concepts are very simple to calculate and get right.

    I think it's broken.