2 thoughts on “Half-lives of verbs

  1. Andrew,
    (1) You accidentally made "this link" a mailto insted of an href. (2) I'm more bothered by the use of "data" as singular, than by the use of "mathematical."

  2. The word mathematics(or mathematical) means different things depending on whether you are a mathematician, a physicist, a computer scientist, a statistician, an economist, a social scientist a journalist, a businessman or belong to any other species. In my part of the world there is a phrase for scheming or cunning manipulation which literally translates into English as "playing mathematics".

    But going by what "good" mathematicians mean by mathematical I would consider it a great compliment if a piece of interesting statistical work or anything else for that matter is called mathematical in that sense.

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