A student of eugenics.

On Wed, Dec 14, 2016 at 1:19 PM, Mike Palij <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Wed, 14 Dec 2016 05:53:51 -0800, Karl Louis Wuensch wrote:
>
>>    On my stats exam there appears, in the upper right of the
>> first page, "Student's Name _____."  Two of my students wrote in there
>> "William S. Gosset."
>> Should I give them extra credit?  A pint of stout?
>>
>
> I'd have been more impressed if the student wrote "Bernard Lewis Welch".
>
> By the way, when I teach the Student/Gosset t-test, I tell the old
> Guinness story and point out that if one has homogeneous variances,
> one should celebrate by having a Guinness stout.
>
> However, if one has heterogeneous variances, there's more work
> to do with Welch's correction and they should drink grape juice
> instead of stout.
>
> Sometime the mnemonic works.
>
> -Mike Palij
> New York University
> [email protected]
>
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Michael T. Scoles, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Psychology & Counseling
University of Central Arkansas
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