Data Analysis Update

So, Katie and I have finished entering survey data and are now analyzing it.

Our knowledge of statistics is a bit patchy, especially in the classical statistics domain. On the other hand, I know a fair bit about how to quantify information and manipulate probability distributions. That means that we're using pretty rigorous math to find correlations in our decidedly un-rigorous data.

Amhidu is using some of the survey data for his Fourah Bay College thesis. We sent him some of our preliminary results. For those information theory junkies out there (are there any?) , I sent Amhidu a color plot of the mutual information between the answers to every question, and tried to explain it to him. My explanation wasn't long, though, so it's probably useless to him. Katie, on the other hand, generated a bunch of highly useful bar graphs. Much more practical.

I just posted a two-part entry that deals with transparency, honesty, and their converses. It's a few different stories gathered over the past few weeks. Whenever people are implicated I replaced the names with a single letter. At the start of the first one and the end of the second one there are short framing paragraphs, but otherwise they're mostly narrative. Enjoy!

Cheers, Chris.