At 07:55 PM 11/23/00 -0500, Herman Rubin wrote:
>In article <8vk5h2$516l9$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
>Li0N_iN_0iL <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>Herman Rubin wrote:
>
>>>anyone wanting to learn good statistics should not even
>>>consider taking an "undergraduate" statistics course
>
>>Nonsense.
>
>Not only is that not nonsense, but it is quite difficult
>to get students who have learned techniques to consider
>what, if any, basis was behind those techniques.
>Meaningful statistics is based on the concept of
>probability, not the computation of probabilities, and
>consideration of the totality of consequences.
herman ... are you suggesting that we encourage students NOT to take any
work of any type at the undergraduate level? just go from high school to
graduate school?
don't take calculus ... or geography ... or intro humanities ... or english
lit ... or physics ... or ????
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