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I have long fantasized about writing a virus that forces Excel to quit if it detects the user is attempting to use Excel to do scientific research.
by gaur 10y ago
I have long fantasized about writing a virus that forces Excel to quit if it detects the user is attempting to use Excel to do scientific research.
- viraptor 10y agoWhat's your proposed alternative that doesn't require hours to start with? Serious question - I believe no programming languages can be applied here. (at least not yet) The barrier to entry must be minimal.
- sevenless 10y agoYou seem to be asking why people shouldn't do data analysis without knowing anything about data analysis.
- viraptor 10y agoI'm saying - we've got lots of people who know the science and do not know or want to know anything about programming. If we want good results, we need to enable them to work better somehow. Proper programming is a good idea for adding to university programs now, so that in ~10 years we can have this talk again and point out that people know better tools and shouldn't be using excel, or at least shouldn't be using it badly.
- sevenless 10y agoAt the very least using the t-test in Excel should require a unique key that you only get after doing a few hours of classwork.