It was about the victim of a cruel yet rather amusing hoax involving six sigma, the inn of sixth happiness, and the social correlations between the two. These correlations were identified using logistic regression. The forward to the article was written by a psychiatrist. Not surprisingly, because of the involvement of this practitioner in the social sciences, the concept of regression got completely lost in translation. This miscommunication exacerbated the confusion which was apparent in the discussion section of the paper where the author argued that data concerning abnormal responses to six sigma stimuli must be viewed as non-normal and therefore atypical and therefore only of interest to a very narrow segment of the medical field concerned with psycho-pharmacology.
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