Happy Birthday Interverbal

This blog is four years old today.

I am going to reprint one of my favorite posts for this occasion.

Way back from Nov 2006:

Shall I compare thee to a norm referenced score?
Thou might just be two deviations from the mean.
Rough charting makes it hard to know for sure.
And lack of data may create a lean.

Sometimes, too great the fallacy exists.
And often is the reasoning post hoc.
And in irrationality the issue mists.
By natures design we are fetter’d; such is thy lot.

But by this, thy reasoning, good data shall not fade.
Nor lose possession of great virtue, epistemological.
Nor shall any reliable measure be un-made.
When under scrutiny most logical.

So long as logicians syllogize, and parents sigh.
So, long as we push, and continue to try.