Re: When to use PSPP and not SPSS?

[Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk]

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> On Mon, Jan 06, 2014 at 04:20:51PM +0100, Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk wrote:
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>> I work for a large Norwegian college and in some circumstances, we
>> can't use SPSS (at least for now). I have asked the researchers if
>> they maybe could use PSPP, but they seem very sceptic. Since I don't
>> know much about them, being an operation engineer, could someone line
>> out the major differences between them apart from
>> license/cost/openness etc?
> 
> It is odd that anyone, especially academics, would distrust PSPP whose
> implementation is published and open to independent review, yet they
> trust SPSS
> whose sources are unpublished, secret and not open to critique.
>
> Or perhaps your colleagues, are not aware of that. Can you ask them,
> in the
> light of the above, *why* they are wary of PSPP and perhaps we can
> allay their fears somewhow.


The main distrust was not from academics, but from management, which is 
somewhat expected (remember back when Linux was distrusted because of the same 
reasons, and for some, perhaps still is?).

I guess I'll find a handful of users and ask them to try and use PSPP for their 
needs.

Vennlige hilsener / Best regards

roy
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