This is a good article that focuses on the risks inherent in quantitative analysis. Marketers often rely on statistics to make decisions and to justify strategies to senior management. Beware of the potential pitfalls that this author refers to as numbers fetishism.
Risks of Quantitative Studies (Jakob Nielsen's Alertbox)
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March 08, 2004
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