Hi Marcia, My tentative suggestion might well be completely off the mark But something completely new and possibly lacking would be some documentation for students doing or having to do statistics. Possibly the opensource PSPP (as an alternative to the much too expensive SPSS) would be a nice thing to help propagate.
The reason for me would be the too uncritical approach which seems to dominate universities (my impression), especially the belief that statistics can be automatically "validated" by some obscure mathematical formulas. A classic criticism was written some years ago by Stephen Jay Gould: The Mismeasure of Man. I think students need to know how to use statistical programms without becoming blind believers, or, the opposite, be so distrustful they don't want to have anything to do with it. Anyway, hit me if the idea is too stupid. Yours Dave On 28 December 2013 14:03, Marcia K Wilbur <ai...@faqlinux.com> wrote: > Hi Everyone, > > My name is Marcia Wilbur. <-- Who I am > > > I am located in the US, Arizona more specifically. <---- Where I live > I am from New England <---- Where I am from > > For over a decade my writing focus was copyright and the Digital > Millennium Copyright Act. I have an AAS in computer science. A BS in > Technical Communications and a MS in IT from Arizona State University. For > many years, I taught technical communications to college freshmen as well > as other foundation courses (Welcome to the university, goal setting, etc.) > Recently, I have found myself with spare time. I know... can you imagine??? > I have always been a contributing member of this community: > > 2000 - present Free speech/free software advocate joining LUGs in protest > of the DMCA > 2001 - 2003 DMOZ (ODP) editor > 2002-2003 Free Software Foundation intern > 2003 Volunteer Electronic Frontier Foundation - DMCA FAQs for the DMCA > Blog > 2003 Volunteer IP Justice - Created boilerplate documentation for grants > 2003-2004 Author Linux Essentials (Aries in cooperation with CompTia Linux > +) > > The rest of the time I spent volunteering here and there as well as > working as a Senior technical writer with some Programming and QA tasks in > semiconductor, education and finance. > . > . > . > ^ > | > | > What my background is, etc. > > I don't know what I can offer, but I am hoping I can put my skills to good > use and be of value to the community. > > Thanks! > Marcia > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: doc-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: doc-h...@openoffice.apache.org > >
