Errors of the Third Kind in Statistical Consulting¶
Kimball. (1957). Errors of the Third Kind in Statistical Consulting. Journal of the American Statistical Association.
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- A deeper pattern — substituting an easier or adjacent target for the actual one under cognitive or strategic pressure — genuinely recurs as co-instances in non-discursive substrates: a software patch that fixes a related-but-different bug rather than the one filed; an engineering fix that addresses an adjacent failure mode rather than the observed one; an organizational reform that solves a different problem from the one motivating it (goal displacement); and, in statistics, Type III error — correctly answering the wrong question
This sourceKimball's definition of the statistical error of the third kind as 'giving the right answer to the wrong problem'.
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- A deeper pattern — substituting an easier or adjacent target for the actual one under cognitive or strategic pressure — genuinely recurs as co-instances in non-discursive substrates: a software patch that fixes a related-but-different bug rather than the one filed; an engineering fix that addresses an adjacent failure mode rather than the observed one; an organizational reform that solves a different problem from the one motivating it (goal displacement); and, in statistics, Type III error — correctly answering the wrong question
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