I miss the old days
The old innocent days
Life uncomplicated
Unsullied by complex modernity
Life innocent
Of MS Excel
Or other MS monstrosities
Word 2003 and every other year
Every circa AD.
But even MS- initiation
Did not fully sully
The Innocence
As fully
As Statistical Software packages did
All those endins SS( SPSS and NCSS)
( was it a sign I wonder?)
When one went hunting for Rsquares
And significances
(usually with a magnifying glass)
Heck, even that nostalgia seems for really bygone days
Even the Un-LISREL’d days
Were better
I was happy
Not knowing those Beta and Gamma Matrices
Those Phis and Psis Ksis and Etas
Greek would have been simpler
In the classical
Combined with software
And models
Structural and Measurement
I might
Just be another casualty
Of a F_A_T_A_L_E_R_R_O_R.
