One of the roles of the statistician in a research team is precisely to
ask the awkward questions regarding meaning and provenance (and cost and
feasibility. That is not guaranteed to make you popular with other team
members. For an informative example, see the first of "Six statistical
tales" by W.G.Hunter, The Statistician, Vol 30 No 2 pp107-117, (1981).
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