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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. Good article by bobbis.u · · Score: 4, Interesting
    Perhaps the author of the Openoffice.org vs MS Office comparison should have read it first.

    I hate it when people lie with statistics. Even the BBC did it recently when they were trying to justify 1 million GBP on their new weather program. They said 7/10 people either liked the new system the same as the old one or preferred the new one. Perhaps they could also have said 9/10 liked the new system the same as the old one or preferred the old one? Who knows when you lump categories together like that without providing the raw data?