Wow, a post that actually is on topic (teaching of statistics)! I find that inserting a little history makes the class more fun -- it makes the class realize that statistics is a product of the minds of real humans and the social contexts in which they lived.
If you have a url or two with highlights of Fisher's involvement with eugenics, please share. I have my students bring in published examples of the use of every major statistic we cover. Just yesterday a student brought in, as an example of a contingency table analysis, a table from Fisher, one that appeared in some eugenics journal. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] What are your opinions about including a little of the History of Statistics? . . ================================================================= Instructions for joining and leaving this list, remarks about the problem of INAPPROPRIATE MESSAGES, and archives are available at: . http://jse.stat.ncsu.edu/ . =================================================================
