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I'm not really seasoned in anything of note right now... it certainly feels like my journey has just begun – however, after reading your post I couldn't help thinking of a web site I visited recently. I'm not sure how relevant it is, but it got me thinking;

http://www.wellnessgoods.com/messages.asp

Groovy.

applying creativity to the regression, she might [instead] obtain y = 9.8 + 3.7x or y = 9.7 +3.8x

I've done regression. Bad example of creativity. Its the same y = a + b*x form. Y = a + b*x + c*x^2 + d*x^3 + e/x + f^x is a more creative solution, where a-f are statistically determined. It will always be more correct because it contains the original form.

And YES, each of these religions has their own independent regression line and if we were to combine these regression lines, we will be able to detect and make sense of the seas of chaos and thus obtaining better understanding of our existence and our relationship with God.

Dont include the statistical "outliars", points that are so far from the approximate line that they probably came from an experiment error, lie, or an other data set. Should one religion get more weight in the statistics than an other? Many religions are offspring of others and should be thought of as the same religion for the regression.