IT analysts produce crap factoids - The IT Skeptic

Submitted by skeptic on Sun, 2008-04-13 10:05
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This is a podcast of the original article IT analysts produce crap - what to look for in analyst "research"

Crap Factoids are pure B.S. that almost sound like a fact, and will be presented so often that everyone will think it true. Let us look closer at a classic Crap Factoid where the results were deliberately skewed, then hyped up by marketing people, and the resulting Crap Factoid thrown to the winds like GM seed. It is time people called analysts to task for this stuff because we all suffer the consequences when decision makers fall for it.

Published in The Skeptical Informer, May 2008, Volume 2, No. 5


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