>At Sierra, a community college in CA, we just went through a blood letting
>of major proportions. The psych department asked to add a stats class. Some
>of the math department went ballistic and tried to block it. Our argument
>prevailed (psych stats is appreciably different, most other schools teach
>stats in the psych curriculum etc) Nevertheless, it was about as bad a
>situation as I have encountered in academia and some faculty will not be
>talking to others for years. If you already have it, keep it! We have
>14,000 students and our course is scheduled once a year with about 30
>students. The math department was concerned about enrollment, but the most
>outrageous comment was made by two math faculty
"no psychologist understands statistics well enough to teach it!"
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