I wrote > Thus, my father (who is now 80) was the child of illiterate > (in English), uneducated, Russian Jewish immigrants. His > father was intermittently employed as a ragpicker. My dad > went to public elementary school, then a selective public > high school (which do still exist, at least in NYC), then > City Univ. of NY (which was a very good > school) then Harvard Law. His parents made **** sure that he > was getting A's.
>>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 4/27/2004 12:38:25 PM >>> asked Is this one of the few occasions where we can witness a professional statician making inferences on the basis of anectodal evidence ;-)? >>> Well, yeah :-) But the anectode describes a fairly widespread phenomenon.....And there may be formal evidence to back this up somewhere Peter . . ================================================================= Instructions for joining and leaving this list, remarks about the problem of INAPPROPRIATE MESSAGES, and archives are available at: . http://jse.stat.ncsu.edu/ . =================================================================
