Hello, I've been reading a little about Fisher and the Eugenics movement. In talking to my class about Gossett's t and Fisher's F distribution, I presented a little bit of the controversy surrounding Fisher and Eugenics. I assigned one of Fisher's papers in which he talks a little about Social Darwinism.
It bombed, but quietly. The question "Is this going to be on the test?" seems to be the only motivator for taking in information. I was probably that way too. What are your opinions about including a little of the History of Statistics? If so, should we test these areas in a first year graduate course? Should we include a little bit of discussion on Ethics in these courses? Especially the Ethics of using Statistics? Warren May University of Mississippi Medical Center . . ================================================================= Instructions for joining and leaving this list, remarks about the problem of INAPPROPRIATE MESSAGES, and archives are available at: . http://jse.stat.ncsu.edu/ . =================================================================
