The statistician
2008-02-26 12:49:08
Fred,
As a self-made statistician, you should not “want to make” the numbers look like anything. Would you happen to be a government employee by any chance?
Here in the private sector, us statisticians like to compare oranges with oranges and apples with apples. You are comparing coconuts with kumquats.
Try this instead:
Since Transportation Security Officers (the screeners) are 1800 Series Federal Law Enforcement Officers, why don’t you just compare their attrition data with all the other 1800 Series Federal Law Enforcement Agencies and their personnel? That’s how us in the private industry would do it, but then, “we want to make” the numbers be correct and valid.
