I would turn this on its head. The problem with social science grad schools is that students are not expected to know R. In my org doing psychometrics, we won't even consider an applicant if they only know SPSS.
> -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of > Charilaos Skiadas > Sent: Thursday, November 09, 2006 11:18 AM > To: r-help@stat.math.ethz.ch > Subject: Re: [R] Making a case for using R in Academia > > As a addendum to all this, this is one of the responses I got > from one of my colleagues: > > "The problem with R is that our students in many social science > fields, are expected to know SPSS when they go to graduate school. > Not having a background in SPSS would put these students at a > disadvantage." > > Is this really the case? Does anyone have any such statistics? > > Charilaos Skiadas > Department of Mathematics > Hanover College > P.O.Box 108 > Hanover, IN 47243 > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide > http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. > ______________________________________________ R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
