Wharton School of Business says Clemens' agents are full of crap

[broadway joe]

Sorry if this is a d_b, but some biz profs at Penn studied that ridiculous 18,000 word statistical analysis put out by the Hendricks brothers that was supposed to show that the Rocket's late-career improvement wasn't unusual, and they very calmly and rationally pronounced it to be a bunch of ****. I particularly enjoyed seeing a couple of pompous baseball agents attempt to get into a statistical debate with Wharton School faculty. Talk about being out of your league.

http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/news/story?id=3239471

The salient points:

"What [the Clemens camp] said in their report is indefensible as a matter of statistics," Wolfers said. "The statistics do not point to innocence. We are not saying that the numbers show guilt, but we are saying that the statistics show that something unusual happened in Clemens' career as he entered his 30s."

...and

"What they are doing is a good example of lying with statistics."

 

[buckweaver]

I believe Baseball Think Factory (or was it Hardball Times?) also had a very rational debunking of all the fancy charts and stats in the report that essentially were full of ****.

 

[DanOregon]

You can lie with statistics? Really?

 

[Write-brained]

You can lie with statistics? Really?

Can 3 out of four dentists be wrong?

 

[Trouser_Buddah]

You can lie with statistics? Really?

Can 3 out of four dentists be wrong?

I thought it was 4 out of 5 dentists... Statistics gone wrong again!