Jim Clark: "I've never understood the methods first rationale, and argued strongly about 20 years ago for stats first, which we have had since"
Yes...I'm not sure how to go about it. It would seem that, ideally, they would be taught together as I think Marc Carter was arguing. Maybe I can completely redesign the separate courses to be something like "Analysis and Design" I and II, and teach methods and stats together as they co-occur. For now I'm stuck with Methods then Stats. If stats and methods are so intimately tied, one wonders why they were separated into individual courses in the first place....perhaps, methods was supposed to be the non-computational aspect, and stats where one does the number crunching (maybe made more sense back in the days of the slide rule?). It's going to be difficult to not have a lecture-only approach. How can I get some interaction and experiential understanding of the methods without doing any stats? Is the Cozby text Paul C. Cozby's "Methods in Behavioral Research"? --Mike --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: arch...@jab.org. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df5d5&n=T&l=tips&o=1957 or send a blank email to leave-1957-13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df...@fsulist.frostburg.edu
