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Originally Posted by Nancy1999  I know, and because so many people think in black and white I was afraid we'd get side tracked with all the people who have chosen not to neuter their dogs and yet are still responsible pet owners.
Percentages just give us a little view of what could be happening, you can "show" lot of different things by using percentages, and if someone has an agenda, they can skewed to support things that aren’t necessarily true. However, if you can find out the details on how they gathered their data, you get a much better indication if the information is valid. I do think we can look at percentages and see if more information is needed and a subject should be studied. |
When we study a problem, we start off with tabulated frequencies. I think percentages are misleading because they don't answer a question, it's only a raw number. A simple regression analysis can actually show if any of these variables are statistically significant when holding others constant. I promise, when I graduate, I'm going to look into this. I actually find this very interesting...I don't think there's anything wrong with the data it's just that the proper models haven't been used to evaluate the information
