Rich Ulrich said on 10/22/02 12:08 PM: >On 22 Oct 2002 09:19:09 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Warren) wrote: > >> 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. >[ ... ] > >As I understand from reading Stephen Jay Gould, Fisher >was a founder of modern genetics. That is worth mentioning. > >Gould also described Fisher as (my recollection, and *my* >words) a bit of a racist fool when it came to the social implications. > - mention it, perhaps. It might be overdoing it, to assign old, >contentious texts to young people ... non-historians who are >not accustomed to translating *anything* across social periods. > >History: I have enjoyed reading Stigler.
I think it is well worth it, however, to mention how much statistics owes to beer, because of Gosset's t test. Students usually get a kick out of that. Paul . . ================================================================= Instructions for joining and leaving this list, remarks about the problem of INAPPROPRIATE MESSAGES, and archives are available at: . http://jse.stat.ncsu.edu/ . =================================================================
