At 05:15 PM 4/22/01 -0400, Rich Ulrich wrote:
>On 21 Apr 2001 13:04:55 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Will Hopkins)
>wrote:
>
>So you guys are all giving advice about teaching statistics to
>psychology majors/ graduates, who have no aspirations or
>potential for being anything more than "consumers" (readers)
>of statistics? Or (similar intent) to biomedical researchers?
>
>Don't researchers deserve to be shown a tad more?
rich, one problem is how much TIME do we have with students? by a light
year, far more students who take ONE course (and that is the majority case)
will be looking at articles and papers and not doing research ... even if
they are in psy ... so, it is a quandry what to do ...
i wish we all had the luxury to have students in a sequence ... for several
courses ... that would give one many options ...
such is not a luxury most who teach intro stat have ...
even in grad school, the trend is clearly to require less quantitative work
... across many disciplines ... thus, even for those who are supposed to be
in "higher education" partly for learning about doing research ... are
having this downplayed more and more
what are your suggestions in this atmosphere of academe?
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