Re: [Sigia-l] Junk science or just lazy?

From: Andrew Boyd (facibus_at_gmail.com)
Date: Fri Aug 10 2007 - 05:14:30 EDT

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On 8/10/07, Ziya Oz <listera_at_earthlink.net> wrote:

> I think I have misplaced my "Lazy Science, 17th edition" so I'm fuzzy on
> this and I know it's easy to write a few lines of code to scrape concordance
> data from web sites, but since when did word frequency counting become
> synonymous with analytical insight?

That is easy: if you can't walk the walk, at least be sure to talk the
talk. More flies are caught with cattle sweepings than with honey.

Cheers, Andrew

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