RE: Pspp-users Digest, Vol 47, Issue 17

[Ferguson, Douglas A]

In praise of asterisks:

One of the joys of studying a correlation matrix in SPSS is viewing the 
asterisks.  One asterisk means less than 5% chance of Type I error and two 
asterisks means less than 1% chance of the same.  "Seeing stars" is a good 
thing, even if overly-large sample sizes promote Type II error.

I don't question the utility of italics, even if they work erratically, but I 
sorely miss those SPSS-style asterisks in PSPP.  I wish I knew enough to make 
the fix myself, but I am at the mercy of programmers who prefer fonts.
 

Douglas A. Ferguson, Ph.D.
Professor 
College of Charleston
(843) 608-8008

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