David_Gerard comments on Research methods - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Nic_Smith 22 February 2011 07:19:54AM * 7 points [-]

A few thoughts:

I am continually amazed at the amount of data that should be put and manipulated in a proper database that's mucked about in spreadsheets instead.
Gene Callahan at ThinkMarkets recently had a post on how health care is especially bad when it comes to technology.
Eric Falkenstein says there are a lot of "skilled" jobs that could be replaced by computers too.

Comment author: David_Gerard 22 February 2011 09:04:03PM 4 points [-]

Excel is mostly used as a single-table database system. It has the important virtue of being an improvement on nothing.