Architecture. Vrm. Anchoring Effect. The Misconception: You rationally analyze all factors before making a choice or determining value. The Truth: Your first perception lingers in your mind, affecting later perceptions and decisions. You walk into a clothing store and see what is probably the most bad ass leather jacket you’ve ever seen. You try it on, look in the mirror and decide you must have it. While wearing this item, you imagine onlookers will clutch their chests and gasp every time you walk into a room or cross a street.
You lift the sleeve to check the price – $1,000. Well, that’s that, you think. You start to head back to the hanger when a salesperson stops you. “You like it?” “I love it, but it’s just too much.” “No, that jacket is on sale right now for $400.” It’s expensive, and you don’t need it really, but $600 off the price seems like a great deal for a coat which will increase your cool by a factor of 11. You put it on the card, unaware you’ve been tricked by the oldest retail con in the business. They all said no. Open Source Solutions. Recently, AnnMaria De Mars, PhD (multiple) and Dr. Peter Flom, PhD have stirred up a bit of a tempest in a tweet-pot, as well as in the statistical blogosphere, with comparisons of R and SAS, IBM/SPSS and the like.
I've commented on both of their blogs, but decided to expand a bit here, as the choice of R is something that we planned to cover in a later post to our Open Source Solutions Decision Support Systems Study Guide. First, let me say that Dr. De Mars and Dr. Flom appear to have posted completely independently of each other, and further, that their posts have different goals. In The Next Big Thing, Dr. Contrary to what some people seem to think, R is definitely not the next big thing, either. -- AnnMaria De Mars, The Next Big Thing, AnnMaria's Blog In SAS vs.
There are several threads in Dr. I find it interesting that both Dr. Today, there's not so much wonder from such a feat. How is R different? Well, first, R is a computing language. As you can tell, I like R. AIN Portugal.