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February 01, 2010

what the difference makes

I have spent the past few days, trying to close the gap between 0.9 and 0.77. In terms of numbers, it's just 0.13, but in stats, that's already a lot.

There are two things I can do - leave it and explain this OR try re-keying, re-grouping and see if the gap closes. I have tried re-grouping and got it this close on my last attempt and because today is the first day in February - I have decided that I need to move on, to close.

The strangest thing is, most of whom who used this inventory, got 0.9 - and if there was someone who didn't, it certainly was not officially reported. The difference i obtained, was not good for the inventory. So for an entire day, I was thinking about how to report this difference, without being too critical.

I wish I could re-key it using another method and then see if the numbers improve. But there is no other method which I know about and i'm stuck, have been for 4 days now.

In life, we always try to accept the tiny differences and just get on with it.
In research, when it's not even about life per se, we can't. Tiny differences convey major shifts.
It's not teaching me anything except, in academia, it's all about precision but in life it's about making acceptable excuses for imperfection.