All humor aside, statistics is the discipline of quantiative methods of gathering, organizing, analyzing, and presenting information to support understanding and decision-making. It helps us get a grasp on part of the uncertainty inherent in that understanding and decison-making.
"Arthur J. Kendall" wrote: > How else would you know what "average joe" could mean? How else > develop that mode of understanding? > > John Smith wrote: > > > How is it of any use to the average Joe? . . ================================================================= Instructions for joining and leaving this list, remarks about the problem of INAPPROPRIATE MESSAGES, and archives are available at: . http://jse.stat.ncsu.edu/ . =================================================================
