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To: TimF who wrote (93482)	11/3/2008 8:34:23 PM
From: neolib	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 541701

In that case, industry does not produce uniform results, and any study that lumps the results will obscure that effect. Its the classic problem of wanting to look at the mean and variance, when the distribution is a more complex animal then simple Gaussian or Gaussian like. In that case, bin things, and look at the shape before doing your statistics. What you will then find is that the ratio of industry to non-industry research is all over the map, depending on certain categories. Even with their chosen field, you might find some interesting variance by certain metrics, like does this funder doing this research have a dog in the fight vs not? Binning things can answer those types of questions, and often the answer is rather significant. Statistics can be used to make things clear, or to obscure things.