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               *** A Story by Dr. Graper ***
 
         3/28/79   4:49 pm     lynch / udperuse / unidel
Dear Friends:
 
        The correct way to deal with invalid data is, of 
course, to ditch it.
This is a debated techinque, especially with non-
parametric measures as Yule's Q (which allows the adjustment
of figures by the experimenter to accomodate for the afore-
mentioned problems of subject dishonesty) but shit, man,
you gotta do it!  
        Perhaps a little story will help:
        
        When I was getting my learner's permit to drive,
I used to drive around with my friend Sam.  Sam was cool,
you know? and like, he knew that a yellow light meant
"Get going!" instead of "Proceed with caution" or "Stop"
or whatever they tell you and like he taught me everything
there was to know about driving.  He taught me how to make
some turd driving behind me catch a red light, how to run
a schoolbus before its blinkers went on, how fast you were
really supposed to go (57 mph) in a residential zone and
 
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               *** A Story by Dr. Graper ***
 
         3/28/79   4:49 pm     lynch / udperuse / unidel
all sorts of stuff. 
        Well, the big day came and I went down to the
department of motor vehicles and like, we go out for the 
driving test and I take the old grunt for a spin in my
amazing Chevy and he fails me!  Can you get that!  He
fails me!  Well, if that didn't beat all.  So next time,
I do it real nice and drive 20 mph in a 25 mph zone and
don't take any short cuts across the motor vehicle dept.
front lawn and he passes me and the first thing I do is
get my license and peel out, leaving three inches of rubber
on the department's front steps and sideswiping the handi-
capped parking sign.  
 
                Your Friend,
                Dr. Graper