It is the job of the student's major professor to protect the student from kooks. I don't know how to handle the situation if only the social-constructionist member remembers anything about stats.
On 25 Mar 2002, Eric Bohlman wrote: > Harold W Kerster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Yes, a t test may be enough. Students should also learn that results > > obvious on their face need no stat analy at all -- don't gild the lily. > > And then they run into a radical social-contructionist committee member > who insists that the observed difference in pregnancy rates between the > male and female subjects is not "obvious on its face" and demands a > p-value :) > > . > . > ================================================================= > Instructions for joining and leaving this list, remarks about the > problem of INAPPROPRIATE MESSAGES, and archives are available at: > . http://jse.stat.ncsu.edu/ . > ================================================================= > . . ================================================================= Instructions for joining and leaving this list, remarks about the problem of INAPPROPRIATE MESSAGES, and archives are available at: . http://jse.stat.ncsu.edu/ . =================================================================
