Do You Measure Up? — Dickeson

Beware that you don’t apply wrong statistical rules to otherwise right data or vice versa. Different strokes for different folks. I think this is what I may not have made clear in last November’s article about the termination of a database.

Serving a Purpose

The original purpose of our database of web press operations was to provide comparative benchmarking of web press waste and speeds. True, we used certain parts of the operation code data recorded by the Autocounts from the contributing presses. But closing that database was simply giving up on the idea of providing comparative benchmarking between companies as a useful task. We did not, by any means, wish to negatively reflect on the usefulness of the collection of operation code data for machine operation.