Hindsight is 20-20, but couldn't you co-develop a course with a title like
"Statistics for the Social SCiences" and co-teach it for a while, until the Math
folks felt better about it? After all you will probably use their tutoring
services a bit. LIke most psych depts at 4 year schools, we require stats, but
we are experimenting with a 2 semester sequence combining stats and methodology
(semester 1 = descriptive, semester 2 = inferential).
Harry Avis wrote:
> >At Sierra, a community college in CA, we just went through a blood letting
> >of major proportions. The psych department asked to add a stats class. Some
> >of the math department went ballistic and tried to block it. Our argument
> >prevailed (psych stats is appreciably different, most other schools teach
> >stats in the psych curriculum etc) Nevertheless, it was about as bad a
> >situation as I have encountered in academia and some faculty will not be
> >talking to others for years. If you already have it, keep it! We have
> >14,000 students and our course is scheduled once a year with about 30
> >students. The math department was concerned about enrollment, but the most
> >outrageous comment was made by two math faculty
> "no psychologist understands statistics well enough to teach it!"
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