Here is the first quote:
"The history of statistics is replete with measures of association and correlation. Just because a measure has plausibility at face value, ranges from 1 down to 0, and has a known sampling distribution under an extreme null hypothesis of total randomness is no guarantee of its usefulness or interpretability." (David L. Wallace, 1983)
Comment: Amen, Brother!
Here is the second:
"In summary, this paper is fucking long. Therefore, it ought to be published in a mathematics journal because nobody reads those anyway."
Comment: I wrote that one in a recent draft of a paper I am about to submit for publication that is now over 40 journal pages long. Sigh. I should have written "way too fucking long" instead.
There is actually a recent e-mail exchange that I'd also like to post, but I'll have to send that one privately.
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