Grandpa, what's a card punch key?
--- You wrote:
William Dudley wrote:
> Please excuse an off topic question.
> I am looking for a citation for a statement about learning statistics.
>
> I believe that Richard Harris wrote in his Primer of Multivariate
> Statistics something to the effect that:
> The ability to do statistics is as much in the fingertips poised above a
> keyboard or calculator as it is in the brain...
>
> My memory of this comes from a graduate school course ten years ago and
> is a bit foggy.
> I checked the 1975 edition and did not find such a statment.
> Any ideas out there? --
Look again. Page 28:
"True understanding of any statistical technique resides at least as much
in the fingertips (be they caressing a pencil or poised over desk calculator or
card punch keys) as in the cortex."
Daddy, what's a desk calculator?
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