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At the risk of repeating myself I feel compelled to respond to Ryan Walker's
post. Unless the teaching of statistics can be totally changed, I would
argue for less statistics, not more. As I have pointed out before, most
ecologists can spout ANOVA and t-tests in their sleep, but almost none can
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I agree that this statistics problem is a universal issueDoes the
problem stem from our expectation that mathematicians/statisticians in
the math department will teach the course we want or does it stem from
that there is not enough time or skill in our biology courses to teach
the statistics a
I don't know how common this practice is, but I have received multiple
submissions to referee and once even received the same paper three times
simultaneously. Aside from being immoral and against publication
guidelines - most journals require you to confirm that the paper has not
been submitte
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While statistical (hypothesis) testing may be overused or misused among
professional ecologists, I think that a strong introduction to
statistics is essential for undergraduates. Few undergraduates, prior to
taking a statistics course have thought about how important variation
is, or are aware
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I am surprised at how many interpret logistic regression incorrectly and
ignore the use of normality tests when applying parametric statistics.
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Statistics, I agree is a vital subject for scientists to understand and I
also agree it needs to be emphasized in college science courses. However,
is it so important to become an EXPERT in it vs. having enough exposure to
it to be able to 1) understand and interpret others' analyses, and 2)
c
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At the risk of repeating another opinion, I could not think that Bill
could be more wrong!
A skill in any field comes from knowing how to use the tools. I would
take Bill to task to "prove" what he says about little value from
statistical analysis. Every really good paper published in Ecology
I didn't expect much agreement with my posting, and I'll just comment on two
points that Roper raises, interspersed with his posting below:
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The Department of Integrative Biology, University of California, Berkeley
invites applications to a
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broadly, without regard
to taxon or system, for individuals who integrate experimental field studies
with theory. W
While I agree with the issues that Max Taub raises, I don't think that
relying on statistics is the answer. First of all, it is certainly true that
variation is important. In fact, a colleague of mine used to argue that
understand the variability of natural phenomena is more important than
know
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