Scenes from Cross Validated
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Question: I am a student taking Introduction to Statistics for Non-Majors. How do you interpret the standard deviation in this problem that I am supposed to do for homework?
Answer: Lots and lots of answers from novice users who are trying to gain reputation and who are willing to risk taking the time to answer a question from an undergrad who may never come back to accept an answer.
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Question: I have found a whole bunch of numbers lying around in the street, and I decided to put them in a table and apply Fisher’s Exact Test to them. SPSS tells me that \(p = 0.0328473824\). What is the significance of these numbers?
Answer: Crickets.
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Question: Do I really have to use the Bonferroni correction?
Answer: Yes.
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Question: I am applying for a job as a machine learning engineer, and I lied on my resume about my ability to construct recurrent neural networks. How would you implement a genetic algorithm to minimize the error terms when building an RNN to solve this specific problem that the hiring manager gave me as a take-home test? Oh, and this needs to be in Python because I told them that I was an expert at Python.
Answer: Crickets.
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Question: I do not speak English, and I don’t want to give away the business applications of this situation. Therefore, I will describe it in a very unclear way and also use some jargon incorrectly. When asked for clarification, I might include an equation, none of whose variables are defined.
Answer: Crickets
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Question: I fit my data with a linear model, and some of my variables were three-star variables. Then I built a random forest out of the same data, and the computer said that some other variables were the good ones. Which of my variables are important?
Answer: Crickets
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Meta: Why are there so many unanswered questions on Cross Validated?