In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
William Dudley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Please excuse an off topic question.
>I am looking for a citation for a statement about learning statistics.
>I believe that Richard Harris wrote in his Primer of Multivariate
>Statistics something to the effect that:
>The ability to do statistics is as much in the fingertips poised above a
>keyboard or calculator as it is in the brain...
>My memory of this comes from a graduate school course ten years ago and
>is a bit foggy.
>I checked the 1975 edition and did not find such a statment.
>Any ideas out there?
This is so dangerous that it needs total condemnation.
Keyboards, computers, calculators, etc., are only tools.
Whether or not they are needed is a matter of the local
situation, and not of any real relevance.
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are those of the Statistics Department or of Purdue University.
Herman Rubin, Dept. of Statistics, Purdue Univ., West Lafayette IN47907-1399
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