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The Trouble with Charts

Herding Cats

For small sample sizes, normality tests have little power to reject the null hypothesis and therefore small samples most often pass normality tests. Savage, John Wiley & Sons, 2012. So here's the killer problem(s): The sample sizes between the four types of projects have not be normalized for their size. Related articles.

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Deconstruction the #NoEstimates Conjecture

Herding Cats

This McKinsey project is ongoing, with 5,400 IT projects in the database as of 2012. Suppose we are trying to determine if the relationship between height and intelligence of people is significant; then we start with the ‘null hypothesis’ which, in this case, is the statement ‘height and intelligence of people are unrelated’.

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Deconstruction the #NoEstimates Conjecture

Herding Cats

This McKinsey project is ongoing, with 5,400 IT projects in the database as of 2012. Suppose we are trying to determine if the relationship between height and intelligence of people is significant; then we start with the null hypothesis which, in this case, is the statement height and intelligence of people are unrelated.