Why do you think this post is "negative"? "Negative" towards what? > 87% of statistics are made up. Yes, of course, I didn't mean "lower integer part of nine

Why do you think this post is "negative"? "Negative" towards what? > 87% of statistics are made up. Yes, of course, I didn't mean "lower integer part of nine tenths of the total number of problems". Did that really need to be specified? >> Of the 1% that can't be solved either way, 90% are solved with other statistical techniques (timeseries modeling, decision trees and so on). > But why? Is it really controversial that you should go for the simplest model that works?