Reply #5: I once "fitted" data - and while one variable and out was fast, we would [View All]

[papau]

try for a "correct" set of variables.

To keep the gender the same may mean that those doing the fit knew it was a con and therefore did not care and went with the fastest way to get home.

Since the "fitting" routine is programmed and a button push, the above seems unlikely unless someone was perhaps lazy, or there was little feed back that justified a change so they limited the "error" to fewer variables, or there was just a con.

It least that is how I read the process. I do not read it as a normal day at the office doing a fitting of the data to a set of weights for the variables, where judgement is guided by reports back from the field.