Re: Statistics is Bunk

[Jeff Rasmussen]

Dennis,

good observation. I hope I didn't leave the impression of starting off negative. The students very much enjoyed the debates and it gave them a perspective of the limits of science. I've taken Ford's quip as being somewhat tongue-in-cheek, and that's the way the stats is bunk quote was used in stats class.

thanx,

JR


>my view is that it would be better to start off positive ... not negative ...
>sure, as you go, point out the difficulties ... "discovering" "summarizing"
>knowledge is not easy ... but, there are things we CAN do ...
>
>stress what we can do ... with appropriate caveats of course



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