wasting time trying to figure why my quintiles weren’t exactly 20% each<\/a> when the answer was pretty obvious.<\/p>\nI am getting better, though. I re-ran an analysis yesterday and spent a few minutes trying to puzzle out why it was very close but not exactly the same as the prior results. Then, it dawned on me that this analysis takes a random sample from the population and when I re-ran it, of course, it took a DIFFERENT random sample. Given the good old central limit theorem, these results were similar but not identical. (Although, theoretically, they could have been very different, that would have been rare.)<\/p>\n
Today, I spent a few minutes trying to figure out why my javascript program could not find the web page to which it was being re-directed even though it was clearly right where I said it was. After a few minutes, I found the error there also. I had misspelled the web page<\/p>\n
http:\/\/mything.myotherthing.something.hmtl<\/p>\n
Did you spot it? Well, I didn’t. Of course it is supposed to end with html.<\/p>\n
So, today’s lesson, for the 1,467th day in a row is, check the obvious things first.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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