This little rant has nothing to do with trading so if you are not interested tune out now. I came across the article below whilst looking for something else and I thought it would be a good primer piece for people who wanted to know a little bit more about statistics since it uses neither mathematical notation nor formula and then I saw that I had to fork out EUR41.94 (about $AUD63.00) for the privilege of simply downloading.
This sort of thing along with the rise of bullshit journals, pay to publish, citation mining and the general drop in quality of cornerstone publications such as Science and Nature are some of the reasons why I am glad I left this life behind.
The world is now ready for the landmark article “Tate-ian data analysis for newcomers”.
Oh yeah – how much is this going to cost me?